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		FastTrack revs up for shipment HP will be bundling the FastTrack Web server in a PowerPatch after the 6.0 release, but you will be able to download a version for your 3000 before that. Steve Hoogheem of the porting team said the release would happen in three stages. Customers who have already expressed interest in checking out the work earliest will deal with CSY directly to get the release first, he said. Then CSY will look for anybody who’s willing to take early access to the software late this calendar year, but he noted that “They’ve got to be forewarned with the caveats with it, that it is an early release.” Then the software will be shipped to the masses who take delivery of a 6.0 PowerPatch early in 1999. An admin server installs FastTrack’s main server, the same design the Netscape product has used in implementations on other platforms. “It makes the configuration much easier to have the Admin Server,” said Barbara Dubbert, one of the CSY engineers on the port. “It’s a nice GUI interface.”A run-time version of the CORBA services will be included as part of FastTrack, the first such services on any HP 3000. HP said it’s “exploring as another activity porting CORBA to the platform.” The porting team demonstrated FastTrack in the HP booth running CGI scripts as well as accessing an IMAGE/SQL database for lookups, all hosted on a Series 947. Copyright 1998 The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved