[aclug-L] InternetWeek Newsletter - December 7, 1998 (fwd)

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linux Bolstered By Middleware

Emerging middleware products should stoke the fires of Linux 
adoption in the enterprise.

Until now, use of the open-source operating system has been 
limited mostly to special projects. But enterprise-class 
middleware--a prerequisite if large companies are to build 
mission-critical applications on the open-source platform--is 
laying the groundwork for mainstream applications.

Already, a slew of object request brokers (ORBs) for Linux 
have appeared, following the major endorsements from IBM, 
Oracle, Sybase Inc. and other database players earlier this 
year.

Expected soon are Linux ports for middleware, including 
application servers, transaction processing (TP) monitors, 
enterprise messaging platforms and more, from vendors 
ranging from IBM to BEA Systems Inc. to Netscape. By 
Richard Karpinski

http://www.internetwk.com/news1298/news120498-11.htm
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Sendmail Goes Commercial 

Sendmail Inc. this week will begin selling a commercial 
version of its namesake mail router program, a key Internet 
infrastructure product.

Sendmail, which according to a University of Illinois study is 
used by nearly 80 percent of ISPs and a majority of Fortune 
100 businesses, is a server-based message transfer agent that 
distributes mail between the Internet and servers running e-
mail programs such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.

When Sendmail creator Eric Allman incorporated his company 
this past March, he vowed to deliver a commercial product by 
the end of the year and to continue development of the open-
source software (OSS) version.

"In the commercial product, Sendmail Pro, we're adding ease-
of-use features and extra utilities to the base OSS code," said 
Richard Guth, Sendmail's vice president of marketing. The 
plan, he said, is to release at least one major OSS version 
every year, followed by a new version of the commercial 
product. By Ellis Booker 

http://www.internetwk.com/news1298/news120498-9.htm

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