Some news on servering up dynamic content via a cahcing solution. I wonder since this is a Java-based product, what it would take to make it work on NetWare 5.x?
Any thoughts?
Peter J Strifas
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J2EE-based Server Lowers Page-Delivery Cost
By Jan Stafford, VARBusiness
May 19, 2000 (4:31 PM)
URL: techweb.com
E-businesses are eagerly embracing technologies that personalize websites' content and format Web pages to
fit each site visitor's needs. Trouble is, personalization software's complex analysis and sitecustomization
processes can zap site performance.
E-ISV Open Market's Satellite Server addresses site performance, enabling delivery of personalized,
dynamic Web content at top speed. Developed in conjunction with major global e-marketers, including
Akamai (stock: AKAM) in the United States and Fairfax Interactive Network in Australia, Satellite Server
was unveiled on May 18.
"Satellite Server allows Web integrators to implement more highly scalable, faster sites with dynamic,
personalized content at a lower cost to the customer," says B.C. Krishna, chief technology officer at
Burlington, Mass.-based Open Market (stock: OMKT).
Based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition, Satellite Server enables businesses to spread their personalized page
intelligence to distributed, lower-cost appliance servers to cache and serve personalized information faster.
At low cost, Satellite Server forms an intelligent caching network of dynamic information, sitting in front of
a business' centralized, "head-in" content serving system, Krishna said.
Open Market's Content Server templates are called into play here, enablingSatellite Server to break complex
pages into smaller components that can be stored in a cache. The two programs are tightly integrated to
facilitate user session storage and retrieval.
"Most solutions cache only static content or images within dynamic content," Krishna said. "Open Market
Satellite Server enables caching of every element of a dynamic, personalized page."
Fairfax, publisher of several major Australian newspapers, uses Satellite Server to reduce the cost of serving
up dynamic pages to millions of readers. Akamai is putting it to use in bringing scalability and performance
to the delivery of streaming media and Internet content.
Satellite Server is set to ship in volume during the third quarter of 2000. |
