Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 20:57 UTC, submitted by jptros
At the MacWorld Expo today in San Fransisco, Apple announced new versions of iWork and iLife, as well as an updated 17" MacBook Pro, which promises a battery life of 7-8 hours. More interesting, however, is the fact that yesterday was Mac OS X Server's 10th birthday.
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The "read more" section of the article isn't entirely clear on the relationship between the original releases of OS X Server and the current Apple OSes that bear the "OS X" name (effectively, there were two separate-but-related lines of OS X that have been called "OS X Server" - the 1.x line and the 10.x line).
IIRC, OS X Server (the 1.x versions) were effectively updated versions of Rhapsody - using a modified version of the OS 8/9 "platinum" theme, with NeXTStep tech under the hood. It was released a year or two before the original OS X public beta - and OS X Server (or its codebase) was the basis for client versions of OS X.
And after the release of 10.0, Apple released a version with some server-specific tools under the "OS X Server" label. So in a nutshell, OS X Server 10.x is based on client versions of OS X 10.x, which is in turn based on OS X Server 1.x.
BTW, for anyone else interested in the history of OS X, ArsTechnica published very thorough articles on each of the "Developer Preview" releases (from DP2 onward):
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macos-x-dp2.ars
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-gui/macos-x-gui-1.html
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-dp3/macos-x-dp3-1.html
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-1.html