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Advanced Systems Concepts Updates ActiveBatch

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. announced ActiveBatch Version 5, the new release of the company's job scheduling and management system. According to the company, ActiveBatch Version 5 supports job execution on the most popular platforms including Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT, Linux (Red Hat & SUSE), IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, HP Tru64 Unix, and OpenVMS. The solution also supports interoperability with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases as well as other OLE/DB compliant alternatives including Oracle, WMI, Active Directory (including ADAM), and Microsoft clusters. In addition to providing four standard client interfaces (GUI, CLI, MMC, and COM), ActiveBatch offers optional Web server (Internet Explorer/Netscape) and wireless (BlackBerry handheld) capability to control job scheduling tasks as needed from nearly any access point.

ActiveBatch Version 5 is available for purchase from Advanced Systems Concepts. The release is also available as an automatic update to companies participating in ASCI's ActiveBatch Annual Version Upgrade program. For more information, visit: http://www.advsyscon.com.

Solinus Debuts MailFoundry 4100 Anti-Spam Appliance

Solinus announced the debut of its Linux-powered MailFoundry 4100 anti-spam appliance. According to the company, the MailFoundry 4100 offers a $3,499 price point, no per-user fees, and the ability to process more than ten million messages per day. All of MailFoundry's anti-spam appliances are powered by Solinus' MessageIQT email scanning engine, a human-intelligence driven technology that blocks up to 99% of spam and 100% of all known viruses with a near zero false-positive rate. Solinus has a team of human editors who review spam attacks in real-time and create spam profiles designed to block specific spam without creating false positives.