{"id":13513,"date":"2014-05-30T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/os-x-server\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:54:35","slug":"os-x-server","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/30197\/os-x-server","title":{"rendered":"OS X Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_os_x_server_mean\">What Does OS X Server Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>OS X Server is a server operating system designed specifically to be installed and used on Apple-based server machines.<\/p>\n<p>It is an Apple proprietary server OS. Apple has released several versions of the OS X server, including Cheetah Server (version 10.0), Puma Server (version 10.1) and Mavericks Server (version 10.9, released Oct 2013). 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