OSX Server 10.7.5 - 10.9 (Mavericks) how?

It's unclear to me how to upgrade to Mavericks (10.9) given that I currently have OSX Server 10.7.5 installed. When I try the upgrade the system tells me that 10.8 is a prerequisite. I would be happy to install 10.8.x, yet I can't find an easy way to do this. Certainly the App Store does not seem to provide a way to download 10.8.
Please advise.

Tech Specs for OS X Mavericks is here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5842
Which means there should be no problems in 'purchasing' the free OS X from the App Store followed by the Server App (which is not free) from the same store. Which is essentially what this support page is saying:
https://www.apple.com/osx/server/how-to-upgrade/
As ever with any upgrade (and especially on a working server) you should plan very carefully how you're going to do the upgrade. At its most basic you should backup, backup and for good measure backup. I would also have a fall back position in place just in case the server upgrade breaks or mangles your databases for OD, Mail, Collaboration, Profile Manager plus anything else 3rd-Party or non-Apple stock install you may have added into the mix. A fallback position at its most simplest could be a fully working and bootable clone of your server as it stands immediately prior to the upgrade. That way if anything does break you can quickly revert back to a known good working server. All you need is an externally attached drive that is of the same size or larger of what you have in your current server. Some experienced server administrators would clone the existing server onto another comparable hardware and place it in a separate test environment. Run the upgrade in that environment and test, test, test. Once you're happy go for upgrade on your real server.
My 2p.

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Hola, tengo Maverick con OSX Server v3.
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Tengo una notificación de una respuesta, pero parece haber desaparecido ... pero en respuesta a su pregunta en la notificación ...
No tengo experiencia en el uso / creación de cualquiera de estos en OS X, pero una rápida google encontré esta lista de posibles reemplazos:
http://www.noupe.com/ajax/10-ajax-webmail-clients.html
Dos comentarios embargo:
SquirrelMail (# 4 en la lista de esa página) era el Apple sistema utilizado para webmail antes de mudarse a Roundcube. Puede que haya mejorado, pero la interfaz cuando era parte del sistema de OS X Server fue muy crudo / feo ...
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