Core Services
Anything built on UNIX is more stable and secure than anything else—which was the driving force behind our decision to move to Apple technology. Dale Frantz, CIO,
Auto Warehousing Company
Powerful core services. Easily deployed.
Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Leopard Server deliver an array of core software technologies and services designed to better connect your business, take full advantage of the latest hardware, and lay a solid foundation for your organization’s IT infrastructure. From email to print and file services, web hosting, and application servers, Mac OS X Server offers high-performance, scalable solutions for your business that are based squarely on open standards.
Industry-leading email services. No extra charge.
The ideal solution for businesses or companies without an existing mail server, Mac OS X Server allows you to bring email in-house, using your own domain name rather than relying on an ISP to host your email. Organizations with an existing mail server will appreciate how seamlessly Mac OS X Server integrates into the network, ensuring that all outbound email is forwarded or relayed through your company’s mail servers.
Designed with performance and scalability in mind, the mail services in Mac OS X Server can handle thousands of simultaneous connections. If you are looking for open-standards email support, then look no further. Mail services in Mac OS X Server support SMTP, POP and IMAP, SSL/TLS encryption, mailing lists, and WebMail. They also offer industrial-strength junk mail filtering and virus detection.
Connecting your multi-platform workgroups.
Whether you are supporting a distributed sales force, a district of students, or just about any type of group, Mac OS X Server makes it easy for your users to share information and work effectively. Mac OS X Server can be configured so that you can house all your organization’s files in one place, giving your team a central location to find the most up-to-date information. Mac, Windows, UNIX, and Linux users can all share files with ease because of support for the major file-sharing protocols, including AFP, SMB, NFS, FTP, and WebDAV. It’s easy to share hard drives or individual folders and assign custom access permissions with Mac OS X Server.
Standard print serving. Part of the package.
Mac OS X Server lets you configure print services so that users on many different platforms—Mac, Windows, UNIX, or Linux—can share printers over the network. Print services in Mac OS X Server rely on the standard Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) for spooling, queue and job control, security, and error feedback. Your users can share print queues over a wide variety of protocols, from Internet Printing Protocol and Line Printer Remote to Windows file sharing protocol (SMB) and more.
Web hosting. Powered by Apache.
Mac OS X Server makes it easy to host your own website or Web 2.0 application. Included in Mac OS X Server is Apache, the most widely used HTTP server on the Internet. Apache is preconfigured with default settings, making deployment as simple as starting the Web service. Mac OS X Server offers experienced webmasters support for either Apache 2.2 or Apache 1.3, accessible from with the Server Admin application.
Apache is extremely flexible, so you can add dynamic content, or host stores, auctions, shared calendars, portal systems, and other database-driven services. Support for virtual hosting in Mac OS X Server allows you to host multiple websites on a single server. And, because Mac OS X Server integrates OpenSSL with the Apache web server, it supports strong 128-bit encryption and public key infrastructure authentication using X.509 digital certificates. This high-grade security architecture protects credit card information and other confidential data transmitted during web transactions.
Deploy the Web 2.0.
Everything you need to develop, deploy, and host reliable Web 2.0 applications is included. Mac OS X Server ships with a full complement of server applications and frameworks including Apache 2, Ruby on Rails, Tomcat 5, and WebObjects 5.4. For hosting enterprise-class applications, Mac OS X Server includes a 64-bit Java VM optimized for the latest generation of Intel multicore processors.
Serve up applications with open source tools.
Mac OS X Server also comes with an array of application services, including Apache Tomcat, known for powering large-scale, mission-critical web applications; Java Virtual Machine (J2SE) Java language compiler and execution environment; the Apache Axis (SOAP) engine for web services; and the WebObjects 5.4 Deployment Java web application server and framework.
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Experience core innovation.
As multicore operating systems, Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server fire on all cylinders with the ability to take advantage of up to eight cores of processing power. All of the Cocoa application development frameworks, as well as graphics, scripting, and the UNIX foundations of the Mac, are 64-bit, with full performance and compatibility for 32-bit applications and drivers.
