PRESS RELEASE
June 23, 2003
Apple Previews Mac OS X “Panther” Server
Includes Automatic Setup, Open Directory 2, Samba 3 & the JBoss Application Server
MARKHAM, Ontario—June 23, 2003—Apple® today previewed Mac® OS X version 10.3“Panther” Server, the next major release of Apple’s award-winning,UNIX-based server operating system that makes it easy to deploy popular opensource solutions for Mac®, Windows and Linux clients. Ideal for business andeducation customers, Panther Server includes powerful open source solutionsand innovative, easy to use server management capabilities. New features inPanther Server include Automatic Setup for easily setting up multipleservers; Open Directory 2 for hosting scalable LDAP directory and Kerberosauthentication services; Samba 3 for providing login and home directorysupport for Windows clients; and the JBoss application server for runningpowerful J2EE applications.
“With Panther Server, Apple combines the most popular solutions from theopen source world such as Samba and Apache with Apple’s legendaryease-of-use,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president ofWorldwide Product Marketing. “The result is a powerful standards-basedserver operating system capable of a wide variety of solutions fromsupporting Mac, Windows and Linux workgroups to hosting dynamic web siteswith powerful web services.”
One of the powerful new capabilities in Panther Server is Automatic Setup,which makes setting up a rack of Xserve® systems as easy as setting up asingle server. This groundbreaking new feature allows system administratorsto setup any number of servers from configuration settings stored on adirectory server, external FireWire® device, USB storage device or an iPod™.
Apple is the first major vendor to ship a server operating system with Samba3, the latest version of the popular open source project that delivershigh-performance, reliable file and print services to Windows clients. NowWindows users can authenticate against Panther Server directly from a PClogin window. Panther Server can also host their Windows home directoriesand support Windows “roaming profiles.” By tightly integrating Samba 3 withApple’s Open Directory, Panther Server makes it easy for users to accesstheir accounts from either a Mac or a Windows-based PC.
Other open standards–based network services in Panther Server designed formixed-client environments include Open Directory 2, a robust LDAP directoryand Kerberos authentication server based on OpenLDAP, Berkeley DB and MIT’sKerberos KDC that delivers industrial-strength scalability and security. Anall new mail server rebuilt from the ground up using the open source PostfixSMTP and Cyrus IMAP and POP servers provides an open architecture forintegrating with spam and virus filtering solutions, and SSL for secureemail. In addition, a new VPN server built into Panther Server supports MacOS X, Windows or UNIX clients using PPTP and L2TP tunneling protocols.
Panther Server includes an updated release of Apache, the world’s mostpopular web server along with Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis for creatingpowerful web services. With the addition of a new JBoss application serverand new application deployment tools, Panther Server is now the easiest wayto develop and deploy J2EE applications.
Pricing & Availability
Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther Server will be available by the end of thisyear through the Apple Store® (102.p.syniva.es/canadastore) and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for a10-client edition and $999 (US) for an unlimited-client edition. Canadianpricing to be determined upon availability.
Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther Server will be available by the end of thisyear through the Apple Store® (102.p.syniva.es/canadastore) and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for a10-client edition and $999 (US) for an unlimited-client edition. Canadianpricing to be determined upon availability.
Apple Canada Inc. is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and is a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple products are available at more than450 Authorized Apple Canada Dealer locations across Canada.
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