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Product Roundup
PDC, October 29, 2003 Companies selling products targeting the Windows Server platform were offering a variety of new and upgraded tools at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week in Los Angeles. Most of the vendors were there trying to reach the developer market, naturally, but there were plenty of offerings for the professional looking to manage, administer, and leverage their Windows Server System. Groove Networks touted its Groove Workspace integration with the Microsoft SharePoint Server (and its related services and sites). Workspace is an application for internal and cross-boundary collaboration that operates with an enterprise's existing personal productivity tools and its data and applications. Working together with SharePoint, Workspace users can automatically synchronize files, cross firewall boundaries, and continue collaborating on shared content offline or online. KnowNow announced the availability of LivePDA, a software product that provides mobile devices with real-time data. Working on the KnowNow Event Routing Platform, LivePDA connects to devices over the Internet—unconnected users have their updates queued until they reconnect. Designed to work with enterprise systems to publish and subscribe information updates to any user or system, LivePDA works across firewalls and can encrypt its communications with 128-bit SSL. Identify Software announced the latest version of its AppSight application support system. With support for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, AppSight helps companies deploy and support .NET applications. The product's capabilities include diagnosing the root cause of application problems, providing role-specific support information for analysis and/or escalation, and support for applications in a mixed .NET Framework and COM-based environment. Kinitos, which makes infrastructure server software that speeds creation and deployment of managed client/Web service applications, has extended Whidbey (Microsoft Visual Studio .NET's next code-named release) for its Kinitos Smart-Client SDK and Runtime class libraries and templates. Applications built with Whidbey and the Kinitos Smart-Client SDK have online and offline capabilities, built-in data synchronization, and centralized management. AmberPoint announced a new version of its Web services management software on the .NET Framework. Its monitoring and diagnosis capabilities help users get insight into the performance and reliability of Web services in pre-production. AmberPoint will also distribute a customized version of AmberPoint Express with the Whidbey version of Visual Studio. Hood Canal Systems launched version 2.1 of its Signature Capture Control, which is designed to simplify creating signature-capture applications for mobile commerce and logistics environments. It includes signature-fraud reduction features to help users know if a signature exists and how long it took to create. About the Author |