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Zope has many unique properties that set it apart in the groupware market. The first characteristic is its target market. The server is aimed at enterprises looking for a groupware server to enable them to create Web-based applications. Zope works so well in these situations that it’s practically an app server functioning like a groupware […]

There’s a vast middle ground between your standard electronic-mail software and a powerful list-server like Listserv. That middle ground is served well by Arrow Mailing List Server. There’s a vast middle ground between your standard electronic-mail software and a powerful list-server like Listserv. That middle ground is served well by Arrow Mailing List Server. Arrow […]

One of the first tools ever created for managing mailing lists on the Internet, Majordomo is a UNIX/Perl-based mailing-list manager that, while still quite functional for those working in a UNIX environment, is perhaps a little outdated when compared to both standalone mailing-list managers and e-mail servers with integrated mailing-list capabilities. Majordomo is distributed as […]

NTMail offers SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 mail services for both dial-up and LAN Internet connections using Windows NT (Intel and Alpha) or Windows 95 platforms. The server was designed from the outset for Windows NT and as a result enjoys several optimization benefits that you won’t find in many of the mail servers ported from […]

List server administrators usually deal with the issue of large-list management with brute force — just keep throwing hardware at the problem until you eventually get acceptable performance. And as far as users are concerned — well, they can just learn the proper (and all-too-often proprietary) syntax if they want to make changes to their […]

With a rather expensive price tag and some questionable support policies, Cassandra needs to be knock-your-socks-off software in order to make it in the crowded news server market. While Cassandra has many outstanding features, it won’t knock your socks off, but it might merit a look if you’re tired of working with hard-to-configure news servers. […]

The currently accepted truth in the open-source world is that to make money on open-source software, you need to add some unique value to it, whether it be packaging or enhanced capabilities. That logic has been followed by Apple in its Mac OS X Server, which builds on open-source software with a slew of additional […]

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 […]

Sun Microsystems advertises the fact that its systems do the heavy work on the Internet, and for once the advertising hype is not out of line with reality. 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. […]

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 […]

If I were to sit down to write a network application today, it probably would not be a proxy server: The market is filled with proxy servers. At their core, proxy servers allow multiple machines on an internal network to share a single Internet connection. Proxy servers are typically configurable so that the manager has […]

Designed for the ISP market, the Vircom Proxy and Roaming RADIUS Server is a Windows NT RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) server that can integrate with ISP billing packages (Platypus, IBOB, RODOPI, Emerald, and Worldgroup) to provide both authentication and billing information. Designed for the ISP market, the Vircom Proxy and Roaming RADIUS Server […]