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To: Andrew Danielson who wrote (23542)	3/16/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: yofal	Respond to of 213176

<<I wonder if they will offer educational discounts on OSX server.>> From today's Macintouch Apple today announced U.S. and Canadian availability of Mac OS X Server for Power Mac G3 computers, priced at $499 for an "unlimited client license." [An Education/Government price list has the software at $249.] Mac OS X Server is "built on the same foundations that will power Mac OS X, providing system-wide protected memory and full preemptive multitasking. It also supports open standards such as 100% Pure Java and BSD 4.4," according to the company, which says that the new operating system "is wrapped in a friendly desktop interface called Workspace Manager," and all its services "can be easily enabled using Mac OS X Server's Setup Assistant." and from yesterdays MacOSRunours: Which brings us to the topic of working hardware. Although only G3 desktops, minitowers, servers, and Blue towers are officially supported, MOSR staff visually confirmed that the PowerBook G3, 9500, 8500, 7300, 8600, iMac, and even a Umax s900 can run the operating system with no discernible bugs. For what it's worth.... emmell