Web initiatives by Quarterdeck - beyond Memory Managers to the new World
Jason Romney (jromney@werple.mira.net.au)
Mon, 23 Oct 1995 01:25:51 +1000 (EST)
PC Week Online
October 2, 1995
QUARTERDECK STEERS FOR NET
By Lisa Nadile
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Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc. plans to ship by month's end the first
of a new group of security and Internet products.
IWare Connect 2.0, developed by recently acquired Internetware Inc.,
provides many of the security functions that previously were possible
only with expensive firewalls, Quarterdeck officials claim.
The software allows IT managers to control which users on a NetWare
LAN can access the Internet; which functions, like mail or
downloading, they can use; and what time they can go online.
Users can also be blocked from specific domains, and IT managers can
obtain an audit of a user's actions while online.
"Security is a concern for companies with very large corporate WANs.
Moving to the Internet is going to be even harder to sell to
management," said IWare Connect beta tester Sherry Oliver, manager of
technology for Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine plc., in Windsor,
Ontario.
"When we make the move, it has to be done step-by-step, making
specially designed and selected information available to the public,"
Oliver said.
IWare Connect 2.0, priced at $995 for a five-concurrent-user license,
will be offered as part of Quarterdeck's IWare InternetSuite 2.0. The
suite, also due to ship this month, includes the company's Mosaic
browser, Message Center software, Telnet and File Transfer Protocol
applications, and a NetWare Loadable Module that allows NetWare users
to run Winsock-compatible applications without the need for a local
TCP/IP stack. The suite is priced at $1,295 for a five-user license,
and $11,995 for a 100-user license.
Also this month, the company plans to ship Macintosh versions of its
Mosaic browser and Web Author 1.1 development tools, along with
Internet search and navigation tools for its Web Server software and
Mosaic browser.
In December, Quarterdeck expects to ship a Virtual Reality Modeling
Language-enabled version of the browser.
The product developments come in the aftermath of a reorganization in
which the company refocused on three areas: utilities, the Internet
and electronic publishing, and remote computing.
Also in early 1996 are plans for mail and news servers, as well as
whiteboarding and collaborative computing capabilities for existing
product lines such as the Web Phone ID IT.
One analyst believes the company's efforts will bring it a large step
away from the troubled financial times it had over the past year.
"Quarterdeck products have as good and as much functionality as
anybody," said Bruce Guptill, senior research analyst for Gartner
Group Inc., in Stamford, Conn. "To compete effectively, they have to
have a really good suite of Internet products."
Quarterdeck, of Santa Monica, Calif., can be reached at (310)
392-9851. Internetware, of Sunnyvale, Calif., can be reached at (408)
749-8172.
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