ServerWatch Staff

Sometimes, in the changing winds of competition and corporate strategy, good products don’t get as favored or notable of a position as they deserve. In this case, Borland Enterprise Server: AppServer Edition is an underrated enterprise-level application server that distinguishes itself with excellent support of Java standards, good performance, and scalability, not to mention a […]

Groupware covers a wide gamut of products, from integrated suites like Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to inexpensive but separate products. Share360, from Cybozu Corp., provides more integrated collaboration applications than some of the much more expensive integrated suites at a price closer to typical stand-alone Linux server applications. Share360 from Cybozu Corp. provides more […]

It was probably only a matter of time before GlobalSCAPE, Inc. produced a server to complement its respected CuteFTP client program. The offering is GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server 1.0, a Windows product aimed squarely at organizations using FTP on a mission-critical basis. The “Secure” in the name indicates how GlobalSCAPE successfully differentiates its product by […]

Application servers run the gamut from simple Java application servers to enterprise-class products intended to host large applications across multiple sites. Oracle’s 9i Application Server Release 2 is definitely among the latter. In fact, the Enterprise Edition is a veritable kitchen-sink collection of applications, at a relatively reasonable price of $20,000 per processor (reasonable, that […]

Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2000 (SBS) is not really a server per se, but rather a bundle of related servers modified to work together on one box for a maximum number of 50 users. For a substantially reduced price, an organization receives Windows 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, ISA 2000, Outlook XP, […]

More than a dozen products, including the “free” versions shipped with Windows, can share an Internet connection with a SOHO or midsize business LAN. Most of these are some variation of a proxy server that stands between the network computers and the Internet connection. What distinguishes most of the products is not that they share […]

Lotus Domino 6.0 and Notes 6.0: A full-featured enterprise collaboration system and application server Looking for a customizable, extensible, and programmable enterprise-class collaboration environment to connect employees, customers, and partners over the Web or in a low-speed dial-up replicated environment on a variety of operating systems? Lotus Domino 6.0 may be just the ticket. Lotus […]

WinGate Pro: Top-of-the-line proxy server that comes with an e-mail server, spam filtering, and a full suite of plug-in features Designed for the enterprise sharing an Internet connection on a LAN, WinGate Pro is one of the most complete proxy systems on the market. In addition to the top-of-the-line proxy server at its core, the […]

Arguably the most popular news server on the planet, InterNetNews (INN) is software firmly entrenched in the UNIX world, with a command-line interface and enough text-based config files to make even the geekiest among us happy. If you’re used to working with this type of tool, then INN is a great choice for your server […]

CommuniGate Pro: Enterprise-level mail server with outstanding support for multiple server clustering Now in its fourth iteration, CommuniGate Pro has been on the market for five years and continues to prove itself a worthy enterprise-level mail server. Thorough support of standards, multiple servers configuration capabilities, and support for a wide spectrum of platforms enable it […]

Ximian Connector: Software that allows Linux users to access Microsoft Exchange Server Until recently, enterprises standardized on Exchange 2000 that needed to also support Linux users had three choices: give anyone who used Linux two PCs, find substitutes for Windows-based desktop applications, or invest in a second mail or groupware server. The Ximian Connector for […]

When you get down to nuts and bolts, FTP servers are not the most complicated pieces of software. They combine an operating system’s file handling with Internet Protocol to move files around the Internet. However, these days FTP servers are finding uses in many corporate file-transfer situations because they can add protection and control that […]