March 29th, 1999

[11:11 AM] StarNine Announces Update And New Name For WebSTAR
by Staff

The good people at StarNine have announced a new version of WebSTAR, their extremely popular web server suite for the Mac. They have also given the product a new name of WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0. the new version offers new features, much higher performance, and new support for additional protocols. According to StarNine:

StarNine Technologies, Inc. today announced its next generation of WebSTAR(R), the highly acclaimed and widely used Internet server software for the Mac(tm) OS, delivering performance improvements and new technology which transforms WebSTAR into a powerful, complete Internet Server Suite. Currently in testing, the newly renamed WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0, is due for release in June of this year. Beyond a dramatic twofold increase in Web server performance, WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 includes a new SMTP/POP/IMAP e-mail server with LDAP and remote Web-based e-mail access capabilities, newly incorporated Lasso(tm)-based FileMaker Pro(tm) and ODBC database publishing from Blue World Communications(tm) (see related press release dated 3/29/99), integrated SSLv2 and SSLv3 with support for multiple certificates, IP addresses and encryption options, and dozens of improvements to the core WebSTAR servers and add-on modules.

StarNine has not announced pricing for the new version.

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