It's an interesting approach to make the server utilities an add-on to the base OS X platform rather than a separate operating system as with Windows.<p>Interesting features are "profile manager", which sounds like an LDAP server and the Mail/Calendar server to replicate Exchange functionality.
Woah. This seems highly relevant to me. I might actually be able to manage all the macs, ipads, and iphones running around my house in a more centralized way? It seems worth 20 bucks just to find out.<p>Can it help manage my current home media server, a headless 2003 Dell running SuSE?
I just wish I had a way to run my XCode builds in a VM locally (i.e. not paying a remote entity for the privilege) .. does anyone know if OS X Server can be run in Parallels or VMWare or some such thing?
The most interesting feature for me is the XCode Server + Bots.<p>I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I've installed it, added a git-repo, created a Bot, but it does nothing. Also, I don't know how to tell it to do "pod install"[1] before attempting to build the app.<p>1. <a href="http://docs.cocoapods.org/guides/installing_cocoapods.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.cocoapods.org/guides/installing_cocoapods.html</a><p>I just want to see Bots work and what is has to offer that my already existing Jenkins CI environment doesn't.