Sun Microsystems Inc will offer several different packaged software options it says will turn any UltraSparc server into a Java server. Meantime insiders claim it hasn’t yet decided how its own Web server software, once known as Vishnu, now being called WebServer, will be packaged and sold. PC Week says WebServer is going to include Web management tools, support Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 and digital certificates and replace the SunSoft’s current offering, the Solaris Internet Server. The Sun Microsystems Computer Corp people we spoke to said that as far as they are concerned there is no plan to replace the Netscape server software on their high-flying Netras. WebServer 2.0 is intended to add the Jeeves Java-powered Internet servers alongs ide the HyperText Transfer Protocol engine, enabling users to deploy Java applets from server applica-tions – serverlets – without using Common Gateway Interface.
