COREL LAUNCHES LINUX-BASED NETWINDER GROUP SERVER.Corel Computer, a division of Corel Corp, has added a new Group Server model to its NetWinder line of Linux-based thin servers. Following the lead of its thin server rivals Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything Inc and Cobalt Networks Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost servers based on Linux. Founded in 1996 in Mountain View, California under the name Cobalt Microserver, the company pioneered easy to use server appliances featuring secure web user interfaces for Internet service providers (ISPs) Inc, Corel has aimed the NetWinder Group Server at departmental workgroups and small businesses. The device runs on the StrongARM RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microprocessor and comes with 32MB of RAM. The machines support HTTP/1.1, common gateway interface (CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. ) and Perl scripting, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. page authoring, email services, public and private threaded discussion, document indexing and sharing and cross-platform file sharing, which allows a NetWinder file server to support clients running Windows NT, 95 and Apple's Macintosh OS. A diskless version will set buyers back $979. A NetWinder with a 2GB hard drive is priced at $1,339, with 4GB, $1,629 and with 6GB, $1,839. Linux is a crucial platform for the struggling Corel, which has also announced a port of its WordPerfect office suite to the open source operating system. |
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