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From the “I didn’t post this when it was current” files is an article from Stories of Apple, titled Ten years ago: here comes Mac OS X Server. On January 5, 1999, Apple announced Mac OS X Server.

I had access to a Macintosh Server G4 running Mac OS X Server 1.2. I recall being pretty baffled by it at the time, especially when the setup assistant wanted to configure an entire network routed by the server. The OS looked like a darker version of classic Mac OS, but was very different in every other respect from that OS I’d become so comfortable with. The filesystem layout was foreign. The administration tools were Web-based, and relatively poor (to my thinking) compared to AppleShare IP 6’s. However, there was the sense that this new system was the future, and that Mac OS X Server 1.0 and 1.2 were the gateways to it. I wanted to know more.

And my, how far we’ve all come in a decade.

[Via Eric Z.]

TidBITS: Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard — Mac OS X Server, not the workstation version.

This is pretty big news, even though it’s really only the change in EULA right now. It would solve a great many problems in hosting Mac OS X Server if VMWare ESX could run on Apple hardware. If you could make Xserves part of an ESX cluster, and you could limit the Mac OS X Server to running on just the Apple hardware in that cluster … that would be very good. But this is all wishful thinking and speculation on my part.