FOR RELEASE ON JANUARY 4, 2000
Contact: Anita Holmgren
Phone: 805-963-6983
888-2-WebTen
FAX: 805-962-8202
Internet: anita@tenon.com
http://www.tenon.com/products/webten
WebTen 3.0 – Award Winning Web Server for Mac Adds WEBmail
New release includes enhanced security, compatibility, robustness, and
extensibility
Santa Barbara, CA, January 4, 2000. Tenon Intersystems is shipping WebTen
3.0, an upgrade to its industrial-strength, high-performance Apache-based
Web server for Power Macs. The new WebTen now supports configurable
web-based email, secure remote administration, enhanced SSL certificate
support, dynamically loadable Apache modules, and a Sherlock-compatible
high-performance search engine. The new release also includes many
additional enhancements and modifications for improved robustness and
ease-of-use.
Apache is well known as stable, full-strength, feature-rich web server
software used on over three million web sites worldwide. Tenon has taken
this mature, integrated, scalable software and extended it with performance
enhancements, security, and Macintosh-specific features to make a unique
Apache for the Macintosh platform. Tenon’s Mac OS-based Apache is running
in a pre-emptive multitasking environment and is able to sustain over 1100
hits/second – a five-fold performance advantage over WebSTAR. WebTen is one
of the easiest-to-use and fastest Apache web servers in the world.
WebTen’s new anytime, anywhere WEBmail enables users to access email from
any device running a browser. WebTen’s WEBmail is compatible with SMTP mail
servers: thus, the WEBmail client can POP mail from any SMTP server and any
mail client can POP or IMAP mail from the WEBmail server.
With an additional option, the WEBmail client can be hand tailored with
unique logos and banner advertising on a virtual host-by-virtual host basis.
WebTen’s SSL has been updated to support Y2K-compliant two-tier Verisign
certificates and to support Netscape Certificate Servers for corporate and
military intranets that employ internal certificate authorities using the
Netscape software. WebTen’s Administration Server now uses SSL to give
webmasters the security of encryption while configuring virtual hosts
remotely.
WebTen’s new dynamic architecture lets webmasters add Apache modules
on-the-fly, simply by dragging them into a Modules folder. The widely used
PHP3 is included with WebTen 3.0 as a configurable module. PHP
(http://www.php.net) is a scripting language that combines many of the best
features of Perl, shell programming, and C and includes a variety of
database interfaces. With WebTen, Macintosh web developers can begin to
embrace standard internet web tools, such as the powerful PHP, as a first
step in transitioning to Apple’s preemptive multitasking Mac OS X.
In addition, the new version of WebTen includes pre-installed demonstration
copies of Matador Design’s WebEvent, for web-based calendars, Lundeen
Associates’ WebCrossing, for web conferencing, and Aestiva’s HTML/OS, for
building dynamic web sites. WebTen 2.x customers can upgrade to WebTen 3.0
for $199; upgrades from WebTen 1.x are $250. WebTen 3.0 for new customers
is $495; a ‘sidegrade’ from WebSTAR or Apple’s ASIP is only $350. WebTen
3.0 is downloadable from the Tenon web site
http://www.tenon.com/products/webten, with a built-in 14-day license.
Founded in 1989, Tenon Intersystems is a leader in high-performance
networking. Tenon technology, combined with the power of Apple’s G3 and
G4-based machines, is providing the framework for world-class networking on
the Macintosh. Last year, WebTen was selected as the Macworld Editor’s
Choice for Best Server Software, outpacing WebSTAR and Apple’s ASIP. Tenon
Intersystems can be reached in the U.S. at 805-963-6983, by the internet at
sales@tenon.com, or via the web at http://www.tenon.com.
