August 18, 1997

Intranet Use For NT Made Easier New products will tap growing market By Justin Hibbard and Lisa Nadile everal vendors are capitalizing on the popularity of Windows NT as an intranet server platform, demonstrating products at last week's Windows NT Intranet Solutions conference in San Francisco. Oracle, RadNet, Hummingbird Communications, and Amplitude Software are among those ready to tap the NT intranet server market. International Data Corp. says NT is the intranet operating system chosen most frequently by large U.S. companies. Some 60% of large sites surveyed by the Framingham, Mass., research firm expect to be using NT servers for intranets by year's end. Oracle shipped a memory patch for its Oracle7 database that runs on the Windows NT 4.0 operating system for Digital Equipment's Alpha server. The patch boosts database memory cache from 2 to 8 Gbytes for apps running on NT, letting more simultaneous users on the database. RadNet, in Cambridge, Mass., shipped a version of WebShare Mobile 2.1, Web-based groupware for NT that lets users replicate WebShare applications to their mobile PCs and use them while disconnected. Versions bundled with WebShare Server are priced at $3,995. Add-on versions for installed copies of WebShare are $1,295. Hummingbird Communications Ltd. demonstrated Common Ground 4.0, an intranet publishing system for NT, which comes with a Java-based viewer that downloads to a Web browser and displays documents stored in Hummingbird's DigitalPaper format. It will ship next month at $4,995 per server. Amplitude Software, in Tiburon, Calif., introduced Event- Center for NT, a server-based application for publishing calendars and events in Web-page format. The product requires no HTML coding, runs on Web servers from Microsoft and Netscape, and links to any Open Database Connectivity-compliant database. EventCenter will ship next week, starting at $2,995. Back to News in Review Send Us Your Feedback Top of the Page

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