Enterprise Applications briefs

By Staff Writers, Network World
January 06, 2003 12:02 AM ET

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Intrusion-detection systems vendor Sourcefire this month begins shipping two new IDS network sensors for use in small to midsize businesses that don't require more powerful gigabit-speed intrusion detection. The Sourcefire Network Sensor 1000 appliance, which supports up to 30M bit/sec speeds, costs $5,000. The Network Sensor 2100, which operates between 250M to 300M bit/sec, costs $13,000.
A new plug-in released last week promises to let users of Alpha Software's Alpha Five Version 5 application and database development tool streamline the process of sending out PDF documents in bulk e-mails. The plug-in component, Report Mailer, will sell for $80 and is the first of many that will be released for Alpha Five Version 5, according to Alpha. The company says future plug-ins for the Alpha Five will focus on applications for e-mail and online message boards.
Freshwater Software, a subsidiary of Mercury Interactive, has bolstered its Web monitoring software to support Web services technologies and transactions. With SiteScope 7.6, customers install software on one machine and configure it to remotely monitor Web services and 65 other infrastructure components and applications in the network, eliminating the need to install an agent on every managed machine. Available now, the software supports Simple Object Access Protocol, Dynamic Web Services Description Language implementations and XML Schema data types. SiteScope is available for Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Solaris servers. SiteScope also can monitor systems supporting Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, FreeBSD, SGI and Digital Unix. Pricing for the new version of SiteScope, which includes 25 Web services monitors, starts at $3,000. A free evaluation of the product can be downloaded from the company's Web site.

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