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New Product Briefs (January 4, 2000)
Attention vendors: Here's how to get your products mentioned in SunWorld
By Dusan Palka
- Automate enterprise backup with Veritas
- Early access to StarPortal now available
- NetFront 2.5 for Linux/GTK available free
- MediaFORM introduces cdDIRECTOR
- Manage content with TeamSite
- Provide Web-based mail with POPNow
- eBiz admin tools for Domino
- Cross-platform Visual Chat
Automate enterprise backup with Veritas
Veritas Software, formerly Seagate Software, has released version 3.2 of Veritas NetBackup Support for Solaris 8 and the Sun StorEdge L700 tape library.
NetBackup Support allows you to ensure data integrity across multiple servers and for thousands of users on heterogenous systems -- including Max OS, Windows NT, Novell, and Unix and Unix-like machines -- with centralized management and control.
NetBackup offers multiple options for backup, which allow you to perform selective or logical restores with snapshot backups, schedule automatic copies for primary backups, dynamically share tape drives among multiple servers, or manage disaster recovery.
The administrative interface also provides choices for every user's taste. Optional application-specific backup and recovery features are available for Oracle, SAP R/3, Informix, Sybase, Microsoft SQL and Exchange Server, DB2, and Lotus Notes products.
Veritas NetBackup 3.2 pricing begins at $4,000 for Windows NT and $8,500 for Unix. Included in that price are 30 days of complimentary support, which is available via email, newsgroups, or call centers. Support pricing begins at $20 per support incident, and discounted packages and annual support contracts are available.
For product information:
http://www.veritas.com/products/nbux
Early access to StarPortal now available
Sun Microsystems has announced its early access program for StarPortal. Sun's StarPortal is part of an overall plan by which Sun would like to deliver the tools, client software, middleware, and software for the datacenter of the future.
StarPortal, an ASP-like implementation of Sun's recently acquired StarOffice software, allows companies and individuals to access word processing, presentation graphics, spreadsheets, calculators, calendaring, drawing and image manipulation, and email from any Web browser.
According to a company press release, "the StarPortal software code has been frozen, and a limited number of customers/partners will be selected to receive the first early access [EA] code for StarPortal for the purpose of testing features and functionality. The EA program will then open up to additional customers/partners who will be enrolled to deploy actual pilots and perform beta testing. This program will help further develop the technology for a final StarPortal software release in spring of 2000."
Among the first early access program participants are USWest, Bell Atlantic, Debis Systemhaus Telecommunications, Homebase/Infocast Corporation, On the Go Software, Program d'Informatica Educativa, Psion Enterprise, Quantumlynx, and Telenor Nextel. The final list of participants will be announced in January 2000.
StarOffice applications are available for Solaris, Windows, Linux, and OS/2. Client access is available from any Web browser, and will eventually be available from portable devices as well.
Company press release:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1999-12/sunflash.991221.3.html
StarOffice product information:
NetFront 2.5 for Linux/GTK available free
Access has announced the availability of a demo version of NetrFront 2.5, its Internet browser for Linux-based embedded applications. This is the first time that this product, the most popular embedded browser in Japan, has been made available for the Linux operating system.
Features include support for HTML 3.2 (with some HTML 4.0 support), email, frames, cookies, JavaScript, JV-Lite 1.3.1 (via a plugin), SSL 2.0/3.0, and a Japanese character set (including kana-kanji conversion).
Product information:
http://www.access.co.jp/product/develop/demo.html
Company information:
http://www.access.co.jp/english/top/top.htm
Download a trial version:
http://www.access.co.jp/product/develop/linux_ag_e.html
MediaFORM introduces cdDIRECTOR
The cdDIRECTOR product from MediaFORM acts as a CD print server that can process up to four imaging, mastering, archiving, or duplication jobs simultaneously.
Product features include:
- The ability to handle up to six 8x CD-ROM drives
- 175 disk input
- Inline printing
- Multiple SCSI hard drive support
- A multitasking environment
- Fully controllable user access
- Full logging
- Unlimited clients
- An open API
- Autoloading
- Copy, verify, and copy/verify modes
- Disc on demand
The self-contained cdDIRECTOR box comes preloaded with Windows NT Workstation and can be accessed from any computer with a Web browser. cdDIRECTOR includes a one year parts and labor warranty. For pricing information, contact your nearest distributor.
Company information:
Product information:
http://www.mediaform.com/products/director.htm
Manage content with TeamSite
Interwoven TeamSite 4.0 provides Web-based enterprise content management with filesystem, metadata, and database features, as well as a task-based workflow engine.
TeamSite allows you to predefine Web development processes, automate publishing processes, track and control project management, implement conditional logic with XML, run external programs, enable rules-based content replication, employ database-backed content management, and customize file-locking procedures.
Interwoven TeamSite is available for Windows NT and Solaris. For pricing and support options, please contact company sales.
Product information:
http://www.interwoven.com/products/teamsite
Download product demos:
http://www.interwoven.com/products/webdemo/index.html
Provide Web-based mail with POPNow
POPNow from UKWebs is a secure, Web-based, POP3 email client that allows you to provide users, viewers, or even yourself with POP3 access to email accounts.
Features include easy administration, cross-browser compatibility, a refreshing absence of Java and JavaScript, enhanced security, foreign language support, and time zone settings.
POPNow comes in two flavors. The User Edition allows POP access to a single domain, while the ISP Edition allows access to multiple domains. POPNow User Edition costs $50 for a single installation and $150 for unlimited installations; the ISP Edition costs $150 for a single installation and $300 for unlimited installations. Removal of the product's copyright notice is available at an additional charge. Technical support is available via email or by phone.
Product information:
Company information:
http://www.ukwebs.com/index.htm
POPNow demo:
http://www.popnow.co.uk/cgi-bin/popnow.cgi
eBiz admin tools for Domino
Rave Software has released eBiz Admin Toolbox. This set of five tools is designed to simplify the day-to-day administration of Lotus Domino networks. The toolbox includes:
- Email Deleter: Purges aged mail
- Last Logon: Identifies inactive users
- Knowledge Manager: Tracks database usage by user or group
- Password Synch: Reduces the overhead of synching passwords
- One Touch: Remotely reconfigures any user's Notes settings
Tools may be purchased separately at $2,000 a piece, or together as the eBiz Admin Toolbox (which runs on the same platforms as Lotus Domino) for $9,500.
Contact company sales for more information.
Cross-platform Visual Chat
OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.7-6 is a free, open source, client-server visual chat package written in Tcl/Tk. Its features include avatar support and an avatar library, cross-platform capabilities, and plug-in extensions (including MP3 support).
OpenVerse operates on any platform that runs Tcl/Tk, including Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows, and is free for download, as is Tcl/Tk (from Scriptics). The OpenVerse program is a beta release, with no guarantees from the manufacturer.
OpenVerse:
Tcl/Tk:
http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/#select
Scriptics:
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