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ServerWatch Newsletter for March 12, 2004
March 12, 2004


      
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ServerWatch Newsletter
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Friday, March 12, 2004
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Server News
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1. Enterprise Unix Roundup: Open Isn't Free
March 11, 2004
We dive hand first into our reader mail bag and explain the 
difference between 'open source' and 'free software.' CA says 
its SCO licenses aren't what they appear. To keep two sets of 
files in sync, we recommend unison, which uses the rsync 
algorithm to update a pair of archives based on changes 
to each.

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3324711


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2. Dell Joins Server Virtualization Fray
March 9, 2004
Dell tabbed VMware Monday to add virtualization technologies 
to its PowerEdge servers and Dell/EMC storage.

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3323411


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3. February 2004 Security Space Survey Results
March 9, 2004
Security Space's Web Server Survey breaks out Web server software 
usage on the Internet for 90 domains. Data for the February survey 
was gathered from responses received from nearly 14 million Web 
sites. About 50 percent of these sites are .com domains. 

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3323341


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Server Updates
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* Updated Share360, a 4 star groupware server, to version 2.3.0.4. - Mar 11, 2004
		http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/server/index.php/17085

* Updated 602Pro LAN Suite, a 3.5 star mail server, to version New in LAN SUITE 2004. - Mar 11, 2004
		http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/server/index.php/16497

* Updated GuildFTPd, a 4 star FTP server, to version 0.999.12. - Mar 09, 2004
		http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/server/index.php/16171

* Updated Fictional Daemon, a 4 star telnet server, to version 4.4. - Mar 09, 2004
		http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/server/index.php/16109


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Feature Articles
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1. Merak Mail Server, Running With the Pack
March 10, 2004
Merak's mail server has kept pace with the times. Like other 
enterprise-class mail servers on the market, the product is 
but one component of a module-based messaging platform that 
can also offer collaboration, anti-virus, anti-spam, instant 
messaging, and Webmail functionality. 

http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3324271

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2. Hardware Today: x86 Virtualization Competition Gets Real 
March 8, 2004
The virtualization space is heating up, as evidenced by this week's news 
that VMware and Dell have bolstered their partnership. We look at what 
they, and other key players in this all-too-real space, are up to and 
where they are headed. 

http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3323131


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Serverwatch Forums
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Each week we select a comment or question from the ServerTalk archive
or ServerWatch discussion forum that we believe will be of interest 
to readers. To read the complete post or see what others have to say, 
click on the link that follows. You might even be inspired to add a 
comment of your own!

Calendar Items Disappear -- 'We run Small Business Server 2000 and 
have been having the problem that calendar items keep disappearing 
quite randomly. ... We are running Backup Exec v9, and I suspect 
that this may have something to do with it. ...'

http://forums.serverwatch.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17087