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February  1998

Web servers supported MacOS MDG Web Server 4D Purity Charlotte* Social Engineering Quid Pro Quo Sonic Internet Server Suite Spider Island TeleFinder StartNine WebStar Tenon WebTen WindowsNT Microsoft IIS MDG Web Server 4D NCSA Apache** Netscape SuiteSpot Omnicron OmniHTTPd O'Reilly WebSite Pro Searchlight Software Spinnaker Unix Community ConnXions Stronghold MDMA server NCSA Apache Netscape SuiteSpot Sun Microsystems Netra Internet Server W3 W3c httpd 3.0 Hardware supported MacOS Macintosh 680x0 PowerPC WindowsNT Intel Pentium Intel 80x86 Digital Alpha MIPS RISC PowerPC Unix Sun Microsystems SPARCserver Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise SGI WebFORCE Origin 200/2000 Servers Digital Alpha IBM RISC System/6000 SGI O2, Origin200 Pros MacOS Ease of use Reliability Low price point Low cost of ownership Highly secure OS WindowsNT Wide e-commerce application support Preemptive SMP Supports Active Server Pages Supports InterDev Widescale application availability Unix Native TCP/IP Secure, stable 64-bit OS Wide e-commerce application support Highly scalable Strong clustering support Widescale application availability Cons MacOS Minimal e-commerce software available Single-supplier hardware source No clustering support WindowsNT Requires specialized training High price point High cost of ownership Multi-vendor support Unstable 32-bit OS Weak clustering support Unix Requires specialized training High price point High cost of ownership Multi-vendor support E-Commerce catalog applications available MacOS StarNine Web-Catalog StarNine Web-Merchant iCat Electronic Commerce Suite WindowsNT BroadVision One-to-One CommerceOne C1 Commerce Suite CommerceWAVE Merchant-WAVE Connect OneServer Elcom Systems Pecos suite IBM Net.Commerce iCat Electronic Commerce Suite INEX Dynamic NT Internet Factory Commerce Builder Pro Intershop Online InterWorld Commerce Exchange Netscape CommerceXpert Mercantec SoftCart Microsoft Elite Server Enterprise Speedware OrderPoint Sterling Commerce Gentran Server Trade'ex Market Maker Vision Factory Cat@log Direct Unix IBM Net.Commerce iCat Electronic Commerce Suite INTERSHOP Online Elcom Systems Pecos suite Netscape CommercExpert Open Market Transact Oracle Internet Commerce Server Pandesic E-business Solution Speedware OrderPoint Vision Factory Cat@log Direct * In beta ** Uncompiled version Also this month in Netscape Enterprise Developer - Netscape frees its browser - Java security: Too much or too little? - Application servers empower your Web applications - Which platform should you choose for e-commerce? - Using old page layout tricks with new technologies - Netnews: Links to the latest stories the Web has to offer - Netscape plays for high stakes - A free database can boost your site - Netscape's Kiva acquisition pays off with Application Server - What firewalls can (and can't) do for you - EDI struggles to enter the extranet market

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