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IBM Corp. and Lotus Development Corp. announced a family of Web servers that let users create and manage Web site content, build standards-based email and groupware collaborative applications, and deploy electronic commerce solutions. The e-business Application Servers are designed for the development and deployment of business solutions for the Internet, Intranets, and Extranets.
Lotus Go is the code name for a Web server that lets users build, deploy, manage, and continuously improve their Web site environment.
Lotus Domino Mail offers users a server option that enables the deployment of messaging, integrated calendaring and scheduling, news groups, realtime chat, and Web access in a single scalable infrastructure.
Lotus Domino, Lotus's applications and messaging server, offers a set of services that lets users create interactive business solutions for the Internet, Intranets, and Extranets. Lotus Domino adds groupware application services to enable the development and deployment of custom business-critical solutions.
IBM DB2 Universal Database is a scalable, Web-ready solution that manages both business data and multimedia content required for e-business applications. It provides performance capability for transaction processing and business intelligence applications, and it handles the information-processing requirements of customers scaling from desktop systems to high-end parallel processors.
IBM Transaction Series adds IBM CICS and the Encina transaction monitor capabilities, enabling developers to develop, deploy, and administer applications for the Internet. With IBM Transaction Series Java facilities, developers can build transactional applications as servlets running Java code on Web servers.
Contact IBM Corp., 800-426-3333 or 914-765-1900; www.ibm com; Lotus Development Corp., 800-343-5414 or 617-577-8500; www.lotus.com.
Optimal Networks Corp. announced Optimal Application Expert, a Windows-based distributed application performance analyzer that monitors, analyzes, reports, and models application traffic throughout the development, deployment, and ongoing operation of an application.
In the development stage, Optimal Application Expert helps application developers troubleshoot and predict end-user response time problems over a network. Optimal Application Expert also helps developers pinpoint trouble spots within their applications that will slow network performance. When problems are found, either during development or testing of an application, a developer can adjust source code to determine how to optimize the application. This is accomplished through an OLE programming interface that lets the developer manipulate the application to determine exactly where in the code the problem is occurring.
In the deployment stage, Optimal Application Expert lets network managers predict application response time and determine the WAN bandwidth capacity requirements before live deployment. This information lets them optimize the network for the application, show the developers how to optimize the application for the network, and set realistic user expectations and service-level agreements based on response-time predictions.
During the ongoing operations, Optimal Application Expert helps network managers locate the source of the performance problem, whether it is the network, the server, the client, or the application. This lets the network manager focus resources on fixing the problem rather than just on finding the problem. If the problem is located within the application, network managers can use Optimal Application Expert to communicate with application developers to solve the problem within the code.
Contact Optimal Networks Corp., 415-845-6333 or fax 415-845-6363; www.optimal.com.