New products for the week of March 1
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Table of Contents
Hardware
Software
Software Development
Java
Electronic Commerce
- Re:Quest for Buyers electronic catalog content subscription service
- Transact 4 transaction processing, order management, and customer service software
CAD
- C2Verilog ANSI C to synthesizable RTL Verilog
OLAP
Data Warehousing
Security
Hardware
Product:
LinkNet IP Telephony Gateway
- computer telephony integration
(contact vendor for prices)
Company: Linkon Corporation
(Fairfield, CT)
Telephone: (203) 319-3100
Fax: (203) 319-3150
E-mail: sales@linkon.com
URL: http://www.linkon.com
Platforms: PCI based Solaris systems
Description:
The PCI-based, LinkNet Gateway uses Linkon's new Maestro System
foundation switching card for the Sun PCI bus, supporting a full
range of computer telephony and IP telephony applications,
including Voice over IP, Internet fax, and call center
automation. The new card is optimized to run under the Solaris
2.6 operating system and provides leading-edge features,
including an SCBus connector for linking SCSA-compliant boards
together on the bus plane, a data transfer rate of up to 8
Mb/sec, and support for up to 48 voice channels per PCI slot.
Product:
MLR3 Tape Drive
- 50GB compressed capacity (25GB native) tape
(suggested retail price of $2,749)
Company: Tandberg Data Inc.
(SIMI VALLEY, CA)
Telephone: 1-800-TANDBERG, (805) 579-1000
Fax: (805) 579-2555
E-mail: info@tandberg.com
URL: http://www.tandberg.com
Platforms: Novell, Windows, NT, DOS, Solaris, AIX and SunOS
Description:
This is the second product in its MLR family.
50GB compressed capacity (25GB native) and transfer rates of
up to 240MB per minute. The Tandberg MLR3 Tape Drive continues
Tandberg Data's MLR (Multichannel Linear Recording) technology
roadmap for high performance, highly reliable tape
storage for mid-range server backup.
Product:
Sun PCI ATM Adapter
- high-speed networking
(155 Mbps Adapter for Multimode Fiber $1,095, 155 Mbps Adapter for CAT 5UTP $895, 622 Mbps Adapter for Multimode Fiber, $3,995)
Company: Sun Microsystems. Inc.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (650) 786-7737
Fax: none
E-mail: info@sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com
Platforms: PCI SPARC
Description:
Built to meet the requirements of the fastest I/O standard
available, these adapters allow Sun customers to experience
the benefits of its high-performance, scalable computing
systems. Using NASA's Advanced Communications Technology
Satellite and an ATM satellite link operating at 622 Mbps,
scientists were able to transfer seismic data at record
speeds between the Lewis Research Center in Ohio and the Jet
Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena. Using the SunATM 622
PCI card in the Ultra 30 workstation, NASA achieved TCP/IP
data transfer rates of greater than 460 Megabits per second
across the satellite link.
Sun's PCI 66 ATM adapter cards are compliant with the ATM
Forum's UNI 3.0/3.1/4.0 specifications, offers LAN Emulation
1.0 and supports IP over ATM.
Software
Product:
CFO Vision Version 2.0
- financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis
(contact vendor for price)
Company: SAS Institute Inc.
(Cary, NC)
Telephone: (919) 677-8000
Fax: (919) 677-8123
E-mail: Mike.Nemecek@vm.sas.com
URL: http://www.sas.com
Platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT
Description:
Comprehensive, packaged application designed to re-engineer
and accelerate the financial consolidation, reporting, and
analysis process. It can access and integrate data from
many formats, platforms, or locations.
Manages financial and nonfinancial data via a
multidimensional data warehouse to accelerate the flow of
business information throughout the enterprise and to enable
faster, more effective decision making. CFO Vision software
organizes the information in a format that makes sense to
decision makers, and incorporates tools to help business
managers better exploit the information.
Provides a comprehensive business-intelligence environment,
including OLAP/multidimensional analysis that enables users
to visualize every 'slice' of financial or nonfinancial
information interactively from any perspective -- such as by
account, by organization, by product, by cost center -- in
any currency. This feature will be key to organizations
preparing for the coming changes related to the European
Monetary Unit.
Product:
COSprint
- print manager
(contact vendor for price)
Company: Open Systems Management
(Seattle, WA)
Telephone: (206) 583 8373
Fax: 206 292 4965
E-mail: info@osminc.com
URL: http://cosprint.com
Platforms: all standard Unix variants, Windows NT
Description:
Network-aware print spooling and print management package
for Unix and NT operating systems. Designed for use on
distributed systems but is equally at home on individual
machines, providing control functions that are similar to or
better than those expected by mainframe users.
Compatible with both lp and lpr, COSprint allows users to
take advantage of the product's advanced features without
the need to make changes to existing applications. Using
COSprint, jobs are submitted to queues which in turn can
feed one or more printers. Many queues of varying priority
can feed a printer and a queue can feed more than one
printer. COSprint is integrated into OSM's COSMOS systems
management environment and into BMC Software's PATROL.
COSprint feature include: Freedom to locate printers
arbitrarily on a network; Separate access controls for
administrative and user functions.; Control over print job
attributes including priorities, time and date of printing,
forms control, print styles and page ranges; Lockable
default job attributes which can be assigned to particular
users or groups of users; Facilities to stop, start, pause
and resume print jobs; Command line, full screen character
(curses), X-Windows GUI and native PC GUI interfaces;
Product:
MAS 90 Client/Server
- accounting software
(contact vendor for price)
Company: State Of The Art, Inc.
(Irvine, CA)
Telephone: (800) 854-3415
Fax: (714) 753-0374
E-mail: holly@sota.com
URL: http://www.sota.com
Platforms: SCO, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
Description:
MAS 90cs For Unix Systems ships with both character and graphical
interface versions, the transition is easy from character-based Unix accounting
to GUI Windows operating system-based accounting. This interoperability
between character and graphical versions allows end-users to phase Windows
clients in gradually and preserve prior investments in existing legacy systems.
Users can retain a mix of Windows 95 workstations and Unix terminals,
conferring configuration flexibility and productivity advantages.
Supporting desktop integration of Unix systems and Microsoft Windows
applications, MAS 90cs allows users to pass data directly into Windows
programs, such as Microsoft Word and Excel software.
Product:
On-Line! Detective (7.0 for workstations and 4.0 for servers)
- on-line document for troubleshooting, repair & maintenance procedures
(contact vendor for price)
Company: SoftTech Solutions
(Waterford, MI)
Telephone: (888) 786-4393, (248) 738-7738
Fax: (248) 738-7780
E-mail: sts@stsolutions.com
URL: http://www.stsolutions.com
Platforms: Solaris, Windows
Description:
Documents the troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance procedures
for Sun workstations and servers. The product provides
thousands of hyper-links, pop-ups, full colored photographs,
"Tech Tips" from the experts and a comprehensive database of Sun
and third-party parts. Designed for field engineers, system
administrators, help-desk technicians, self maintainers and
others who interface with Sun equipment. A demo of the Detective
is available on a CD (see Web site or call).
Product:
QIP Enterprise 5.0
- DHCP and other IP management services
(starts at $5 per address)
Company: Quadritek Systems, Inc.
(Malvern, PA)
Telephone: (888) 683-2254, (610) 722-7916
E-mail: sales@quadritek.com
URL: http://www.qtek.com
Platforms: Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows NT
Description:
IP services management product that provides centralized,
scalable, and automated enterprisewide control of the IP
network while enabling distributed local administration of
tasks. It provides customers with greater control and
support across their enterprisewide Intranet and global
Internet systems. Features a QIP Enterprise Management
Suite of tools that allow network managers to plan, track,
analyze and respond to events and trends that impact the IP
services. This suite includes Quadritek's recently
announced Services Manager, together with new Audit Manager
and Billing Manager tools, as well as the Profile Manager
and the Policy Manager which are currently available.
Includes Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS), DHCP, DHCP
Failover, LDAP Gateway to Directory Services, RADIUS
Authentication Services, Database Replication, Dynamic
Subnet Configuration Protocol (DSCP), Secure Dynamic DNS
updates and zone transfers, New Audit Manager and Billing
Manager capabilities, New Subnet Organizer and Organization
Profile functions and enhanced import/export utilities.
Product:
SILMA SDRC Master Series direct interface
- factory simulation software
($5,000)
Company: SILMA, a division of Adept Technology, Inc.
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 434-5191
Fax: none
E-mail: info@adept.com
URL: http://www.adept.com
Platforms: HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris
Description:
The SILMA SDRC direct interface reduces translation errors by
enabling customers to use SDRC part files directly without IGES
or other translators. The result is a high performance,
streamlined interface that is more reliable, faster, and uses
less disk-space than traditional methods.
Compatible with all SILMA simulation software products including
CimStation Inspection software for CMM off-line programming;
CimStation Robotics software for robot workcell design and
off-line programming; Soft Assembly software for 3D assembly
sequence visualization and verification; Soft Machines software
for full CNC machine tool program and part verification; and
AdeptRAPID software for flexible automation design.
Product:
Sun Bandwidth Allocator 1.0
- IP traffic manager
($4,995 for 1 license, $29,950 for 10)
Company: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (800) 786-7638
Fax: none
E-mail: info@sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com
Platforms: Solaris (SPARC or Intel)
Description:
Allows service providers to manage network traffic
flow, remotely monitor available resources in real-time, perform accounting
based on traffic flow and network usage, and allocate network bandwidth to
individual applications, users and organizations.
Transparent to the end user, Sun Bandwidth Allocator can act as a "traffic
manager" by controlling the network traffic sent over a link, managing access
to the LAN, WAN or Internet, and sorting and prioritizing traffic based on
application, traffic type or customer.
Can also act as an "application performance manager" to
control IP traffic from any Web, file or application server
to the network.
Product:
TED (the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop) 4.3
- enterprise desktop software
(contact vendor for price)
Company: TriTeal Corp.
(Carlsbad, CA)
Telephone: 800-TRI-TEAL, (760) 827-5000
Fax: (760) 930-2081
E-mail: info@triteal.com
URL: http://www.triteal.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.6,SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX
Description:
TED (the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop), provides a common operating
environment for a variety of Unix platforms. TED 4.3 also
provides Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance for its Solaris 2.6 and 2.5.1
implementation.
TED provides users with a broad range of features including an
easy-to-use desktop environment and advanced desktop utilities
including tools that increase and manage screen real estate.
Because TED can be simultaneously released on every supported
platform, the enterprise can benefit from a single product
roll-out across a heterogeneous network, as well as reduced
support and training costs.
The TED family of products also includes: WinTED, which provides
a Microsoft Windows client with intuitive access to and
interoperability with Unix-based applications; NTED, which
provides Unix workstation users with access to remote
Windows-based applications; and TEDsecure, a Fortezza-based
security solution.
Product:
TIB/ActiveEnterprise
- real-time application integration
(prices for software development kits start at $2500)
Company: TIBCO Software Inc.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (650) 846-5000
Fax: (650) 846-5005
E-mail: info@tibco.com
URL: http://www.tibco.com
Platforms: 30 platforms including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows...
Description:
Real-time application integration platform designed to
connect all of a company's computing resources --
applications, databases, networks -- into a single, seamless
flow of information.
TIB/ActiveEnterprise links systems and applications, to
solve a particular tactical problem, such as integrating
legacy data on mainframe computers with modern desktop
applications, or as part of a strategic initiative to deploy
an information infrastructure that integrates business
processes worldwide.
Products included in TIB/ActiveEnterprise: TIB/EventConsole
(user notification center), TIB/Adapter Series (application
adapters rmitting the integration of legacy, custom, and
packaged third-party applications:- SAP, Baan, Peoplesoft,
Clarify, Remedy., etc), TIB/ContentBroker (content
management and distribution), TIB/MessageBroker
(content-based routing and message transformation engine),
TIB/Connect (set of connections to third-party middleware:-
IBM MQ, Web, MSMQ), TIBCO Messaging Middleware
(TIB/ObjectBus, TIB/ETX (Enterprise Transaction Express),
TIB/Rendezvous), TIB/Hawk (application monitoring and
management facility)
Product:
TIB/ObjectBus 2.0
- CORBA 2.0-compliant object request broker (ORB)
(starts at $10,000 per server instance (IIOP))
Company: TIBCO Software Inc.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (650) 846-5000
Fax: (650) 846-5005
E-mail: info@tibco.com
FlashBack: http://www.tibco.com
URL: http://www.tibco.com
Platforms: Solaris, HP UX 10.0, VMS, Digital Unix, Windows NT
Description:
Leverages TIBCO's patented reliable multicast and
publish/subscribe technologies to deliver an ORB that combines
CORBA's functional integration with TIBCO's industrial-strength
information distribution capabilities. Provides a flexible
object framework for application integration, enabling
corporations to become truly "event-driven" -- delivering
relevant information in real-time to the people who want it.
TIB/ObjectBus 2.0 is a set of software development tools and a
runtime environment that support the development and deployment
of distributed applications compliant with the CORBA 2.0
specification. Contains a CORBA Application Programming
Interface (API), integrating TIBCO's scalable and reliable
transport software, TIB/Rendezvous, which has been proven over
the past decade with mission-critical applications in financial
trading rooms, semiconductor manufacturing plants, and
large-scale industrial facilities worldwide. The TIB software
platform actively pushes information out over the network the
instant new information becomes available.
Also provides support for OMG's Internet Interoperability
Protocol (IIOP).
Product:
Web@aGlance
- view real-time process information
(contact vendor for price)
Company: Intuitive Technology
(Marlboro, MA)
Telephone: (508) 481-3992
Fax: (508) 481-1802
E-mail: sales@aglance.com
URL: http://www.aglance.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.6, many others
Description:
Delivers 100% Pure Java renderings of real-time animated
GUIs to process professionals.The Web@aGlance Automation
Server accepts requests from a browser, which are passed
through any standard HTTP server. It gets the requested
data from the data server, and presents real-time data as
animated graphics and historical data as tables and charts.
Uses Java technology to deliver live process graphics
screens from DCS, HMI, SCADA and other process applications
to Web browsers. The data can be viewed in tabular form, in
graphical charts, and on customized Web pages using the
supplied Wizards. The Web@aGlance family also features an
editor and a Java language VCR that allow for the creation
and replay of historical data in an animated environment.
Software Development
Product:
Omnesys VC2000
- date and time simulation software
(none)
Company: Omnesys Technologies, Inc.
(New York, NY)
Telephone: (732) 494 4207,(732) 321 9305
Fax: (732) 321 9306
E-mail: info@omnesys.com
URL: http://www.omnesys.com
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris
Description:
Provides applications with their own view of the system
clock, which may be set or reset as needed while they are
running. VC2000 does not require applications to be
rebuilt. VC2000 enables multiple users to make use of their
own simulated date through its "Virtual Clock" without
affecting the date and time of any other user. VC2000 does
not change the system's clock, it merely presents a
different view of that clock to each user and to the user's
application processes as chosen by that user.
Designed to aid Year 2000 testing, the use of this tool
enables users to maximize their test resources by using
their own machines instead of isolated test systems. VC2000
is an ideal date and time regression testing tool. It also
provides application development groups with the ability to
test for any date and time dependencies in their code.
Java
Product:
J Street Mailer (Beta)
- Java mail client
(none)
Company: InnoVal Systems Solutions
(Harrison, NY)
Telephone: (914) 835-3838
Fax: (914) 835-3857
E-mail: info@innoval.com
URL: http://www.innoval.com
Platforms: Java
Description:
Beta version of a comprehensive, full-featured Internet email
client written completely in Java.
Includes features found in most email software: MIME
encoding of attachments, nested folders, and multiple
address books, etc. Unique features include Virtual Folders
and Multiple Personas. Virtual Folders: Independent of
where messages are filed in regular folders, J Street Mailer
provides virtual "folders" that enable one to find mail sent
or received between two dates, mail that has been
color-coded or has a "sticky note," mail received from or
sent to a specific email address, etc.
Multiple Personas allows users to customize messages for
different recipients. A user can, for instance, create a
different Persona for business and personal email with
different signature lines, from and reply-to names and
folders for storing sent messages.
Product:
JChart 2.1
- charting tool for Java
($595 for a single user, source code license)
Company: Rogue Wave Software
(Corvallis, OR)
Telephone: (800) 487-3217, (541) 754-3010
Fax: (541) 757-6650
E-mail: websales@roguewave.com
URL: http://www.roguewave.com
Platforms: Win95, Win NT 4.0, and Solaris, JDK 1.1
Description:
Charting tool for Java. Offers palette of overlay
charts built from JavaBeans components. Overlay
charts, a composite of two or more chart types in
a single chart, are commonly used in industries
such as investment banking and securities to
display stock analysis and financial information.
Also new, the ability to mix and match JavaBeans
components, combining them to create custom
overlay charts. Thirty-nine JavaBeans charting
components permit chart characteristics to be
easily set and modified through individual
property sheets.
Product:
Visaj 1.0.2
- visual application builder for Java
($995)
Company: Imperial Software Technology
(Reading, Britain)
Telephone: (650) 688-0200
Fax: (650) 688 1054
E-mail: sales@ist.co.uk
URL: http://www.ist.co.uk
Platforms: any platform supporting JDK 1.1
Description:
Visaj is a rapid application development environment written
entirely in Java. Gives developers the ability to build
cross-platform Java applications. Enhances developers'
productivity by providing a point-and-click environment for
building pure Java applications, reducing the amount of time
spent on hand-coding. The point-and-click
environment is similar to IST's X-Designer Motif GUI builder.
Features of Visaj include: JavaBeans Support, Unique AWT
Editor, Sophisticated Layout Editors, Class Builder,
Component Integration.
Electronic Commerce
Product:
Re:Quest for Buyers
- electronic catalog content subscription service
(between $250,000 and one million dollars per year)
Company: Requisite Technology, Inc.
(Boulder, CO)
Telephone: (303) 546-0610
Fax: (303) 546.0621
E-mail: sales@requisite.com
URL: http://www.requisite.com
Platforms: Solaris, NT
Description:
An electronic catalog content subscription service designed to
enable corporate purchasing software solutions. Provides
customers with an electronic catalog that includes a
corporation's many supplies across many product categories called
a universal catalog. Requisite combines this customized catalog
of office supplies, desktop computer supplies and many other
products and services with an easy-to-use interface. This allows
purchasing professionals and occasional users to quickly locate a
variety of products and compare features, pricing, packaging,
availability and special promotions. That frees purchasing
professionals to negotiate discount contracts, promote on-
contract buying and reduce administrative costs.
There are four components to Re:Quest for Buyers: Interface to
the desktop (Java or HTML), Customized product and supplier
catalog, Requisite Technology cataloging and content services and
Supplier catalog services.
Product:
Transact 4
- transaction processing, order management, and customer service software
(starts at $125,000)
Company: Open Market, Inc.
(Burlington, MA)
Telephone: (888) OPEN.MKT, (781) 359 3000
Fax: none
E-mail: sales@openmarket.com
URL: http://www.openmarket.com
Platforms: Solaris, HP-UX,IRIX, and Stratus
Description:
Transact's functionality includes: buyer authentication,
payment, order processing, tax and shipment cost calculation,
fulfillment, buyer self- service, customer service, reporting,
profiling, and analysis. New features include: multi-language
capabilities, customizable buyer and seller screens, ease of
integration, Improved Order Flow and Screen Management, Order
Entry API, Comprehensive Payment Partial Shipment Capability
Enhanced Personalized Marketing Functionality
Other improvements include: enhancements to installation
routines, a database clean-up utility, improved key management,
the ability to download transaction data and integrate financial
information into existing accounting packages, centralized
customer service, and a streamlined store registration process.
Transact 4's component architecture allows customers to customize
Transact to match their business practices and integrate it with
their other enterprise systems.
CAD
Product:
C2Verilog
- ANSI C to synthesizable RTL Verilog
(contact vendor for price)
Company: CompiLogic Corporation
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 369-0555
Fax: (408)369-0544 FAX
E-mail: donalds@compilogic.com
URL: http://www.compilogic.com
Platforms: Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Windows 95, Windows NT
Description:
Accelerates the high-level system design of complex
Field-Programmable-Gate-Array (FPGA) and
Application-Specific-Integrated-Circuit (ASIC) hardware. C2
Verilog is the first in CompiLogic's new series of C to HDL
compiler products.
C2Verilog compiles ANSI C designs and algorithms into
Register-Transfer- Level (RTL) Verilog which can be
synthesized into FPGA and ASIC hardware. It is the only
product that supports the complete ANSI C language,
including pointers, loops and functions, without requiring
special commands or C language restrictions. Systems
engineers proficient in C can create hardware without having
extensive Hardware Language Design (HDL) experience.
OLAP
Product:
PowerPlay Server Web Edition 5.5
- Web interface to OLAP
($40,000 for a 100-user NT server license, and at $75,000 for a 200-user Unix server license.)
Company: Cognos
(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Telephone: (800) 426-4667 or (781) 229-6600
Fax: (781) 229-9844
E-mail: info@cognos.com
URL: http://www.cognos.com
Platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT
Description:
Multidimensional analysis of data via a Web browser
interface. The new version features distributed processing
and load balancing using a separate dispatch server for
performance and scalability across multiple servers.
Cube-to-cube drill through allows users to move seamlessly
between PowerCubes (PowerPlay data sources) so that users
have access to the entire scope of data with their
enterprises. Provides a Java-based administration
application, to allow for server optimization and
administration from multiple platforms.
Product:
WhiteLight
- online analytical processing (OLAP)
($75,000)
Company: WhiteLight Systems, Inc.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (650) 321-2183
Fax: (650) 321-2083
E-mail: info@whitelight.com
URL: http://www.whitelight.com
Platforms: Windows NT, Solaris
Description:
Enterprise Business Modelling software. Integrates iterative
business modelling to allow users to build sophisticated
strategic analytical models without the need for programming.
These business models, known as Dynamic Applications, will help
companies explore areas of profit performance such as Lifetime
Value, Risk Management and Customer Profitability with previously
unseen depth and ease.
Allows users to view and navigate through the underlying
calculations, tracing their origins back to the underlying
database values.
WhiteLight Systems will initially focus on large scale, advanced
analytical applications, or Dynamic Applications that must react
quickly to ongoing change in requirements. These Dynamic
Applications include risk management, profitability analysis,
customer relationship management and supply chain management.
Data Warehousing
Product:
Red Brick Warehouse version 5.1
- relational database for data warehousing
(Pricing in North America begins at $65,000)
Company: Red Brick Systems, Inc.
(Los Gatos, CA)
Telephone: (800) 777-2585, (408) 399 3200
Fax: (408) 399 3277
E-mail: info@RedBrick.com
URL: http://www.redbrick.com
Platforms: Unix, NT
Description:
Version 5.1 offers new features designed to maximize
productivity, reduce overall cost of ownership and minimize
complexities for data warehouse administrators and users.
New options available in conjunction with Red Brick
Warehouse 5.1 include Red Brick Vista, a server-integrated
solution for the computation and management of aggregates;
and SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse, a backup and
recovery system designed specifically for Red Brick.
Designed to help data warehouse administrators improve data
warehouse tuning, maximize productivity through features
such as aggregate management and an administrator GUI
interface, and reduce data warehouse cost of ownership by
decreasing time, resource and disk space requirements.
Vista is comprised of three components: Aggregate Advisor,
Query Rewrite, Metadata Layer. In 5.1 Red Brick introduces
TARGETjoin, a new join algorithm which accelerates complex
decision support queries through its parallel bitmap join
technology.
Security
Product:
SecurIT FIREWALL update
- stops abuse of mail servers
(none)
Company: Milkyway Networks, Corp.
(Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Telephone: (613) 596-8384, (800) 206-0922
Fax: (613) 596-5615
E-mail: info@milkyway.com
URL: http://www.milkyway.com
Platforms: Solaris, SunOS
Description:
This update locks-out the abuse of corporate
firewalls and mail servers by unscrupulous Internet users
who use firewalls and mail servers as relays for unsolicited
e-mail and spamming in order to hide their identities from
the recipients. This update can be
obtained by contacting Milkyway's technical support
department at (613) 596-2299.
The update effectively prevents sites protected by SecurIT
FIREWALLs from acting as mail relays. A mail relay is any
system that will accept mail not directly addressed to it
and forward it on to the final destination. The update
allows administrators to specify a valid list of internal
mail domains, such as "xyz.company.com". The firewall will
then drop any incoming e-mail that is not addressed to
specified domains; i.e.: in the above example,
jsmithxyz.company.com would be allowed, but
jdoeany.company.com would be dropped.
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