Comment by dijit
19 hours ago
Mac OS X Server was..
.. macOS but with a utility to install apache/ldap/smtp/carddav and caldav.
very useful for a home server.
absolutely no benefit over Linux for the majority of the workloads it was designed to simplify.
It wouldn't really give you much unfortunately, certainly didn't run noticeably leaner.
(I think at some point "server" just became an .app that was available via the app store).
> very useful for a home server.
That sounds like a giant customer base, if paired with the right software for personal / small organization web publishing, blogging, and e-mail.
It's a shame that things turned out differently.
Right, but I could see an alternate timeline where OS X Server took off, and within a decade took a path similar to Windows Server (pared down services, headless flavor, etc)