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Three New App Servers Released
OCTOBER 1998

Vision Software Earlier this month released an application server that leverages a business-rules engine to minimize coding and facilitate development.

Also advancing application servers in recent weeks, Allaire Corp. released a beta of its ColdFusion 4.0, and Ontos Inc. shipped one of the first app servers based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) platforms.

To make the core technology of a Java application server easier to work with and manage, the Jade server manages the creation of business logic and rules, and automatically converts them into Java components, said Manish Chandra, Vision's senior director of marketing and product strategy.

Vision Jade 4.0 is available now for Windows NT and Solaris. Pricing starts at $5,995 for Vision Business Logic Server and $2,995 for Vision Developer Studio.

Allaire's beta version of its ColdFusion 4.0 application server, meanwhile, adds more enterprise-scale features, including server sandbox security, load balancing and failover, as well as support for CORBA, OLE-DB and native drivers for Oracle and Sybase.

ColdFusion Server Professional edition is priced at $1,295 and runs on Windows NT. The ColdFusion Server Enterprise Edition is priced at $3,495 and runs on NT and Solaris. Version 4.0 will ship in late fall.

Ontos, meanwhile, shipped its previously announced Ontos*Integrator application server, based on Microsoft's COM and MTS technology. The first license for Ontos*Integrator Development Tool is priced at $20,000. The first runtime license for Ontos*Integrator Data Component Server is priced at $5,000.