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OS X Server for Mavericks now showing up in Mac App Store

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<p>There was a time when installing and configuring Mac OS Server or OS X Server (http://www.apple.com/osx/server/) was no modest undertaking; it was an entirely different operating system build, requiring a reinstall or upgrade to get at the yummy workgroup nougat center of Apple's desktop system.</p>

<p>Those days, thankfully, are gone: OS X Server now exists as an application shim on top of regular ol' OS X, and you can buy it in the Mac App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id714547929?mt=12) for just $19.99. (It used to be considerably more expensive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Server#Mac_OS_X_Server_10.3_.28Panther_Server.29), especially if you wanted to run it on the purpose-built hardware (http://tuaw.com/tag/xserve).)</p>

<p>The latest edition of the OS X Server package (http://www.apple.com/osx/server/), OS X Server 3.0, is the build tuned to work with OS X 10.9 Mavericks (http://www.tuaw.com/tag/Mavericks/). As of this evening, it's showing up in the Mac App Store for download or purchase. Among the appealing features (http://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/) of the new OS X Server build (profile management with VPP app distribution, free XSan, the new XCode build server, and the much-loved file and web serving tools) is a revamped Caching Server, which saves Apple software updates -- both Mac and iOS -- to local storage, minimizing the impact to your company bandwidth (http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/17/ios-7-block-ios-updates-on-your-office-network-avoid-first-day/).</p>

<p>If you're updating a machine to OS X Server, let us know how it goes.</p>

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