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  Hummingbird Server Exceeds Our Expectations By Chris Lankford Many organizations are still trying to find a way to seamlessly mesh X applications with Windows. It's always a battle for users who need to utilize both Windows and Unix environments. Now Hummingbird Communications' Exceed 6.01, a high-performance, 32-bit X server, has come to the rescue. It features full X11R6.3/Broadway compliance, a new wizard-based X client startup with NIS (Network Information Service) integration and Jconfig, a Java-based remote application management system that automatically configures and manages desktop applications. Exceed 6.01 is a viable, robust and straightforward application suite that provides an excellent solution to your cross-platform problems. Although Exceed includes 30-plus application accessories, you're really paying for a best-of-breed X server with top-notch support programs tha t foster interoperability in a multivendor computing environment. Bright Lights Broadway was introduced as a technology specification designed to allow remote execution of Unix and X applications over the Internet and the execution of such applications embedded within HTML documents. X technology has been developed through the The X/Open Group, which recently released the final version of the X Window System X11R6.3. Both X and Broadway have been extended, so rewriting existing X applications is unnecessary. Only the PC X server or Web browser need to be updated to support X11R6.3. With Exceed's new features, a Broadway-enabled Web browser will act as a window manager for the remotely executed Unix and X applications. By extending X Windows into the Internet, organizations can deliver mission-critical applications and information through a Web browser interface. An enhanced Xstart application lets you browse NIS databases and FTP sites to locate hosts and applications. (First develope d in 1993, Xstart was designed to automate host access and Unix and X client startups from a desktop icon.) Xstart now includes the innovative Client Wizard, which not only guides the user step by step through this process, but also troubleshoots the connection if the client fails. This level of integration with NIS is unprecedented in the industry. In addition, Xstart now supports the telnet startup of X clients and has improved password administration by providing host- and user ID-based password caching, so that a password is provided only once per session. Another new capability is Jconfig, a revolutionary, Java-based application management system that lets network and system administrators remotely configure and administer all Hummingbird internetworking applications. Jconfig also lets administrators remotely access and modify any Windows NT and Windows95 desktop file, access the Windows system registry, modify environment variables, display system information, and log off and reboot a remote des ktop with password security. Installing Exceed was a breeze, and I had it running in about 15 minutes. After getting the basic xterm to pop up on my screen, I fired up Design Architect by Mentor Graphics, a CAD program used here at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I chose this program primarily because in earlier versions, Exceed did not work with Design Architect because of font problems. I'm now happy to report that it does.
Chris Lankford is an assistant hardware engineer for the CAE Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He can be reached at lankford@cae.wisc.edu.
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