

Intranet Reviews
NEW: Three to get ready
A trio of web graphics tools lets users with different skill levels prepare prettier pages.9/28/98
Know your audience
From the moment your company intranet goes online, you'll be asked to quantify its success. 8/24/98
Web publishing without peril
With Net-It Software's Net-It Central, publishing a document on the company intranet is as easy as saving a file. 7/27/98
Jump!
Astound's Dynamite tops Microsoft's Liquid Motion for adding zip to intranet sites. 6/29/98
Eye on 'Net users: When intranet users begin indiscriminately surfing the World Wide Web, you'll want a tool for monitoring their Internet usage. We found Kansmen's LittleBrother the most helpful among three such products. 5/25/98
Quota Manager: NTP Software puts limits on server use. 4/27/98
Weaving the Web:
Macromedia's Dreamweaver authoring tool spins stylish sites with ease, but it lacks the depth and breadth of tools found in Microsoft's FrontPage 98. 3/30/98
Web-based calendaring, scheduling on track A variety of vendors offer software packages that let users schedule meetings and other events or resources via the company intranet. 3/30/98
WindDance's WebChallenger: A flawed, but useful management tool 2/23/98
NCs for your intranet Network computers make cheap, easy-to-manage Web clients. 2/23/98
Living in your own private Idaho Remote access via the Internet is cheap. Unfortunately, it's also insecure
and unreliable. 1/26/98
Java tools perk up. Vendors add support for objects and other accessories. 12/15/97
Netiva misses the mark. Price and a non-Java implemenation do in this database development tool. 12/15/97
Cashing in on Commerce Servers Leading commerce servers offer decent enough capabilities, but setup can be quite a chore. 11/17/97
Digitivity's Cage One of those rare must-have Java products. 9/22/97
OpenConnect WebConnect Pro
A good way to connect browsers to mainframes, but it could stand some improvement. 8/18/97
Push servers
We take a look at servers from BackWeb, Wayfarer and PointCast. 8/4/97
Microsoft Proxy Server
We give it a big thumbs up. 7/21/97
HNS's DirecPC Commercial
Satellite access to the company intranet? Why not? HNS delivers a decent option with its DirecPC Commercial VSAT service. 5/19/97
NetObjects' Fusion
If you like Microsoft's FrontPage, you'll love NetObjects' Fusion. 5/12/97
Folio's siteDirector 3.1
This Webified document management tool gets a thumbs-up for its flexibility, performance and usability. 4/21/97
Five Web servers
We put five popular servers through their pacers and narrowly crown Netscape's Enterprise Server the winner. Plus: Our Web servers buyer's guide will tell you what to look for and provide detailed specs for products from 19 vendors. 4/7/97
Level Five's Quest 2.5
A useful data-mining tool. 3/24/97
Paragraph's VHSB
Easy-to-use, low-cost VRML editor. 2/24/97
Microsoft's FrontPage 97
This Web authoring and management tool deserves more than a glance. 2/17/97
Opera
This Norwegian browser has some innovative features that put Netscape and Microsoft to shame, but
it also crashes and has no Java support. 2/3/97
Corel's Office for Java
While it is still a little rough around the edges, the package leads us to believe that
you will not lose a great deal of functionality by moving to NC clients.
What remains to be seen is the type of performance you can expect when
running scaled-down versions of Windows-based packages on an NC that needs
to work over Internet or intranet links with server-based code. 1/20/97
Borland's IntraBuilder 1.0
This could be a winner - but it needs work. 12/16/96
O'Reilly's WebSite Professional
A safe bet for mid-scale loads on NT servers. 10/21/96
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