With all the attention devoted to the desktop version, the real reason to wait for OS X Leopard might be the “server edition” of the software. They are offering a scheduling/calendar server, Wiki Server, Podcasting production platform and a whole set of goodies such as Ruby as part of their server OS X release. Rui Carmo, who pens the always informative The Tao of Mac writes, “the big news is that they are at least paying lip service to groupware and the most common server-centric CSCW mechanism – the shared calendar.” Niall quips: “Your Xserve is now Web 2.0 compliant!.”
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Even better, Apple just announced they are opening up a part of Leopard Server to open source! 🙂
Specifically, iCal server.
Deets at http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html
cheers, JH
that is what this makes the server special and more interesting than anything else on the desktop side of things. I like it a lot.
In fact Wiki Server will be the most welcome feature in our office. Finally we can ditch MediaWiki and that damn wiki markup.
While far from being perfect, I too have ditched a mediawiki instance (what a pain) in favor of Confluence – most likely the best enterprise wiki platform out there! Don’t wait for Apple to save you – try it out!
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/