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Newstand is a relatively new server solution designed specifically for the Power Macintosh platform. As a result, the server is targeted more towards Mac-based ISPs, corporations, and schools that want to provide Internet and/or intranet-based newsgroups. Newstand’s GUI interface alone is reason enough to switch from a Unix-based news server. The interface will be familiar […]

Internet sharing is a hot field these days. With the rapid spread of broadband connections, such as cable modems and ADSL, many enjoy enough bandwidth to share between two or more computers. At its core, Avirt’s Gateway software is a just such an application, allowing multiple computers connected together in an internal network to share […]

You have to give Novell a lot of credit for transitioning NetWare to the Internet age. Given up for dead several years ago, NetWare 5 is a good operating system for use as an Internet server, thanks to the inclusion of native IP support and new management tools. The IP support is important when considering […]

Linux is Linux is Linux. Or is it? Not really. Despite the fact that at the core — the kernel — every Linux distribution is based on the Linux kernel released by Linus Torvalds and his posse of volunteers, there are some major differences between Linux distributions, as vendors seek to assert their individuality in […]

Though we’ve spent most of our time discussion the proprietary aspects of ColdFusion, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that Allaire has done a pretty good job in extending ColdFusion with a slew of integration technologies. On the database side, ColdFusion includes native drivers for Oracle and Sybase database, as well as support […]

The Sun Solaris operating system — especially when combined with 64-bit high-performance SPARC-based servers — has the power and the tools for managing the busiest Web sites.

It took years to get here. It will need years to evaluate, deploy, repair, and update. Windows 2000 Server may be the last of the comprehensive (it’s tempting to say monolithic) operating systems, but it is a very good representative of its kind. The changes, both fundamental and cosmetic, have made Windows 2000 Server (which […]

Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows ME as it is commonly called, from Microsoft has placed itself in a very odd position in the market. The product was released a few months after the second edition of Windows 98 but months before Microsoft’s planned launch of Windows XP. (Windows XP, as you may or may not […]

Trumpet’s Firesock 5.0, like the vendor’s flagship WinSock product, provides cost-effective access to the Internet. Firesock makes it possible to connect multiple users in a LAN via a single modem or ISDN connection. Version 5.0 introduces IPv6 functionality and can accommodate many connection types, from dial-up to broadband. Trumpet’s Firesock 5.0, like the vendor’s flagship […]

FireSock is the newest member of the modem sharing class, yet the technology used in the client is one of the oldest and most commonly used technologies on the Internet. Many experienced ‘net users are familiar with Trumpet Winsock as the connection of choice back in the Windows 3.x days (albeit by default — there […]

One of two proxy servers on the ‘net currently using the WinProxy moniker (the other being Ositis’ WinProxy), LAN-Projekt’s WinProxy is an efficient combination firewall/proxy server. Like most combination firewall/proxy servers solutions, WinProxy has three major functions: modem sharing, firewall/proxy server capabilities, and Web page caching. WinProxy, LAN-Projekt’s WinProxy is an efficient combination firewall/proxy server. […]

A proxy server should work on two levels — keeping unwanted content out while quickly serving Web pages to internal users. On both scores, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 excels. Although it is on the expensive side – $995 list price – Microsoft Proxy Server is clearly the class of current proxy offerings. Of course, like […]