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If you build dynamic Web sites or Web applications for a living, chances are somewhere, sometime, you’ve run across ColdFusion, a tag-based application server from Allire. Used to be, ColdFusion was a fairly closed system, relying on its own proprietary implementation of HTML. Today, ColdFusion has evolved to the point where it’s one of the […]

Macromedia’s ColdFusion MX Server is one of the best examples of an application server that succeeds without following the big general software systems Java/J2EE or Microsoft .NET step for step. Macromedia has redesigned its ColdFusion server package, building it with Java and in compliance with J2EE 1.3, but has made it also able to fit […]

Once upon a time there was only one major ircd daemon available for serving IRC networks. The original ircd was developed and used jointly by the pre-eminent IRC networks. The server code evolved normally until v2.8.10 when the Undernet network split off and began to work on development of its own. This resulted in the […]

Microsoft’s IIS version 5 continues to improve on an already great Web server. This version, which comes exclusively as part of the Windows 2000 Server operating system, contains many new features along with performance and reliability enhancements. Notable improvements include better and clearly documented security policies, support for the new WebDAV publishing standards, and faster […]

Often overlooked in the network operating system world is Novell NetWare. That’s too bad, because there are a lot of Novell networks in the world that would serve as a perfect base for an intranet. If you are looking for a robust Web server that runs on a Novell platform — for either an intranet […]

With Roxen Challenger, the boundaries between Web server and application server are blurred, even more so than usual. In this case, intent is the issue. Sure, Roxen Challenger is distributed as open source by Idonex under the terms of the GNU GPL, and you could use Roxen as a pure Web server a la Apache. […]

A hidden gem in the increasingly crowded world of Web servers, Sambar Server is a multithreaded HTTP, FTP, and proxy server with a very adequate set of features — adequate enough to be on anyone’s shopping list when looking for a Web server. Originally developed for Sun Solaris but now available only for the Win32 […]

Although a distant third in popularity among Windows-based Web servers (behind offerings from Microsoft and Netscape), O’Reilly’s WebSite Pro for Windows NT/95 has attracted a loyal base of users. By providing a variety of add-on tools, scripting flexibility, ease of installation and use, and excellent documentation, WebSite deserves serious consideration from firms considering a Windows-based […]

Deerfield’s WebSite (formerly WebSite Pro) is a Web server for Windows, which may be redundant, given that Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) is included with Windows Server products such as NT, Windows 2000 Server and XP Server. Given that IIS is included with virtually all flavors of Windows Servers, is there a need for a […]

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. One of two proxy servers on the ‘net currently […]

There’s a lot to recommend about Kerio Technologies’ Kerio Mail Server, not the least of which is that it is a well-rounded mail server package priced ideally for small to midsize enterprises. However, the key to understanding Kerio Mail Server’s value is to understand and use the features built around its support for IMAP4 and […]

MailStudio 6.0 is an SMTP- and POP-compliant mail server that integrates with a calendar server. It runs on Solaris 7 or 8 and Linux, providing a high-performance, reasonably priced alternative to Exchange Server or Notes. It supports high-availability and scalability through clustering of multiple servers, and we believe it to be a reasonable candidate for […]