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Similarly, the Versata Logic Server offers failover, which guards users against server-connection problems. If a Versata Logic Server goes down, the user is informed and is asked to restart their application while a connection is made to another pooled server. However, the Versata Logic Server does not support fault tolerance, which would continue the current […]

Lots of Standards, Not As Many Features Connecting WebObjects to databases is supported with Oracle, Sybase, Informix, OpenBase, ODBC, PeopleSoft, and SAP connectivity drivers. WebObjects will work with any Web server with a CGI, ISAPI, NSAPI, or WAI interface; within Mac OS X Server WebObjects will work with the bundled Apache HTTP Server. As you […]

Platforms, Platforms, Platforms One major plus to WebObjects — it ships in four major server platforms for server-side deployment: Windows NT, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and (in the near future) Mac OS X Server. The Mac OS X Server support is notable, because of the natural audiences for WebObjects is the Apple community, and even though […]

The Solaris Enterprise Server, which hasn’t been officially released yet, takes the opposite approach from a departmental Windows NT server and is instead designed to run business-critical applications and e-commerce solutions in a high-traffic situation. Intranet managers will note the many tools designed for network deployment. Clustering technology provides high availability for database applications, application […]

While as a whole we give Solaris the operating system a five-star rating, we do have some serious problems with the ISP Server bundle, especially with the hidden costs associated with adding news, FTP and Web-server software to a bundle that’s designed specifically for ISPs. If Sun were serious about targeting ISPs with software designed […]

The servlet engine supports a number of tools intended to make application deployment easier. Tools cover functionality such as deployment descriptors, class loading rules, deployment using WAR files, and automatic compiling and deployment. Stateful failover and clustering is supported and simple to implement. Dynamic EJB stub generation and EAR files make EJB deployment easy. CORBA […]

New Features in Oracle 9iAS (list supplied by Oracle) HTTP Server Apache v1.3.22 New Apache mods Enhanced Session Routing, IP Load Balancing Dynamic Port Registration Proxy for NS and MS IIS Certification With Firewalls and Load Balancers J2EE Container JSP 1.2 Runtime, Tag Libs Servlet 2.3 – Filters, Application Lifecycle Events Persistence – Toplink, BC4J […]

Windows Server 2003: A scaled family of server editions that delivers Microsoft’s long-promised and long-awaited mature operating system Security and Reliability Microsoft claims a new philosophy for security (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) was applied to Windows Server 2003. Some elements of that are subtle (invisible), others, such as improvements to the Web server, are obvious. Internet […]

Emphasis on Relationships IM is a recent addition to the corporate communications toolkit, which means that it now must comply with regulations, like HIPAA and Sarbannes-Oxely, and fit within all of the security and privacy measures the organization is already using. IM Manager gets high marks for reaching out to third-party products (many of which […]

Administrative Flexibility Once L7 is installed, most configuration tasks fall to the Akonix Enterprise Manager. This administrative module uses the services of Microsoft Console with its typical Explorer-like tree of server elements. MS Console is available to administrators on the corporate network. We hope future versions of the software will offer a Web-based version for […]

Spamless Lyris has avoided the association with spam and spam servers by accentuating spam filtering, opt-in policies, and an approach that emphasizes membership instead of broadcasting. People who receive ListManager messages have two ways of opting-in (or dropping out)— through the e-mail message or with a browser. In version 8.0, ListManager added the ability to […]

Features To its credit, Solaris 10 has features no other operating system on the market can claim. That’s right, Sun Microsystems is innovating in the operating system realm again, and it is doing it well. DTrace: The Sun marketing department states that 30-fold speed improvements are achievable when using DTrace to identify system bottlenecks. This […]