User and file management are provided via Open Directory, an LDAP compatible server architecture. Version 10.3 (released August 2003) of OS X Server presented a mature, fully featured server environment. An exception, however, are User services, which are based on (NeXT's) NetInfo. Most of OS X Server's services are based on standard BSD tools, e.g., the Apache web server Mac OS X Server adds a GUI interface to these services. Mac OS X Server mainly adds server management software-web, mail, and user services. WebObjects was included with the server package.īeginning with version 10.0 of Mac OS X Server released May 21, 2001, the server version and the standard version are nearly identical. The GUI looked more like OPENSTEP did, with an emulation layer for running legacy Mac OS 8.6 based applications.
The first version of Mac OS X Server, released on Maand dubbed '1.0' was a hybrid of OPENSTEP from NeXT Computer and Mac OS 8.6. 2.8 Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard).2.1 Mac OS X Server 1.x (Hera / Rhapsody).
