In article <[log in to unmask]>, Duane Percox
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
> Does anybody have any information on how the Open Market Web Server for the
> 3k will be implemented?
 
Our report on the Open Market port to MPE/iX is out on the 3000 NewsWire
Web server. Browse to http://www.3k.com/seybold to check it out, and be
sure to sign up for a free trial subscription while you're there. Here's
an extract:
 
Open Market's Secure WebServer will improve on HTTPD by letting companies
routinely send information such as purchases and college grades through
Web sites without fear of compromise. Any computer system can be
compromised, but when the effort exceeds the return, secured systems will
be bypassed by thieves and intruders for the easier prey.
 
Not Netscape, but available
HP had been planning this addition to the 3000's Internet toolbelt for
some time. It rejected the idea of creating its own security improvements
to HTTPD, a product that it uses to drive its Jazz HP 3000 Internet
server. Secure WebServer was available for porting, and HP signed an
agreement to make the software an item on the HP corporate price list and
to provide support. HP expects to offer the server for under $5,000 in the
next few months.
 
Customers using the HP 3000 rely on security as an essential element of
their computing, and they want a fully supported solution in production
environments. 3As you start to rely on this stuff, you want it supported,2
said HP's Rosie Chiovari, the expert on Internet tools inside the
Commercial Systems Division. HTTPD is given the best-effort treatment by
hard working engineers at HP, but it's not Response Center level help.
 
The Open Market offerings were available to HP in a porting agreement that
gave HP license to the source code, an element that enables both companies
to work on the port at the same time. It was a negotiating point HP didn't
win from Netscape, the darling of investors whose Internet browsers are
being used by more than half the people accessing the World Wide Web.
Netscape wasn't about to release their code for a port project outside
their company, and the same technicians who did ports were too busy with
development to put MPE/iX on their list of projects.
 
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Ron Seybold
The 3000 News/Wire
Independent Information to Maximize Your HP 3000
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