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Welcome To Caravan Business Server

Internet is truly now a universal application and as ubiquitous as a car, television or newspaper.The uses of the Internet are legion. Every day, as it were, newer and faster uses of the Internet are being discovered and deployed. Soon, the Internet may reach all homes and the power of the Internet is within everyone's reach.

While the Internet is easy to use and the browser has become as common and simple to use as a newspaper; deploying applications on the Internet has not been all that simple. Opening a small bookstore on the Net, having a simple application to exchange files, or a customized message transfer facility is fraught with challenges. Sometimes solutions are easily available, but they may be costly or may not exactly match your requirements. Myriad technologies, operating systems, databases, langua ges power the Internet.Knowledge of a plethora of tools and technologies are required to dabble with the Internet.

Doing your own things is one of the anthems of the Internet. Freedom of information across the globe has been one of the fundamental benefits of the Internet. Is it possible to have a similar freedom while developing applications on the Internet? Can you ever develop an application without hiring expensive analysts and programmers? When can you have the liberty of doing your own applications, on the fly? Is it possible to surmount the hurdles of disparate technologies-languages-databases? How can you accept the challenge of integrating legacy systems with future technologies? There is one answer to all these questions - Caravan Business Server.

Caravan Business Server is a Swiss army knife for developers to leverage the Internet. Caravan Business Server is a toolkit of Internet protocols that can help you build Internet and other applications on the fly. You may even be able to dump legacy systems and replace them with snazzy browser based systems within a fraction of the usual costs and time. Caravan Business Server can surmount any communication challenge and can even handle serial input and output devices (teleprinter, telex, fa x, modems). You can even create your own protocols using Caravan Business Server's unique Protocol Definition Language (PDL). What more do you get in Caravan Business Server? Data replication, FTP, Autopickup. Mail server, and Search Engine.

Traditional application development meant systems integration, web-server programming, web-server configuration, Perl, CGI, environment problems, third-party databases and middleware products. After crossing all these hurdles, you were never sure whether the solution worked effectively. Caravan Business Server is changing all that. Say good-bye to complexity and confusion. Say hello to simplicity and ease of use.

Caravan Business Server is a Webmaster's dream come true. With Caravan Business Server, you can build advanced commerce sites, database-driven sites (automatic data replication), Intranets (connecting even low speed lines with high speed lines and data switching), Extranets, or Web-based software products. You can even use Caravan Business Server as your Mail Server.

If you are thinking, "Wow! What a powerful system!" You are on the right track. Caravan Business Server can act as:

* Application Server
* Communication Server
* Web Server
* SMTP (Mail) Server
* HTTP Server
* Database Server
* FTP Server
* XML Parser
* Scheduler
* SIO Server

Caravan Business Server has its own inbuilt security system with multiple users, logins and passwords. You do not waste time building such components into your application. You concentrate on solving your business problems and not on the tools/technologies. A DLL is available to write programs in other languages (say Visual Basic) to extract and push data into the Caravan Business Server database. This is useful to integrate current systems with legacy systems. Caravan Business Server eve n supports regional languages.

Caravan Business Server has its own scripting language. You are not confined to any proprietary scripting language that is restrictive. Caravan tags perform on-the-fly text processing, array processing, date and time calculations, database operations, file system operations and programming.

You think you have heard it all. Wait. There is more. Caravan Business Server has its own database! A point-and-click Web based database manager. You can use Caravan Business Server's database language to read/write/search the database. Caravan Business Server's database is multidimensional. Multidimensional in a few words means powerful and space saving. High speed data retrieval is possible due to data caching and binary tree search. You can have unlimited records per table!

Caravan Business Server, in short, is a web based software tool that you can use to build and customize applications. As the applications developed are browser based, it is easy to build and customize them.Caravan Business Server is essentially an application platform for developing and deploying web based intranet/internet solutions. Today, these types of applications are based on a combination of database server, Web server, and interfaces such as IIS/SQL/ASP. Caravan Business Server uses industry standard protocols such as HTTP and TCP/IP and combines all the required functionality into one integrated platform to reduce the costs, resources and expertise required for development and deployment of web solutions. Caravan Business Server has built-in security and communications oriented services. Caravan Business Server is essentially a one-stop cost effective solution for all types of intranet and workflow applications. The architecture is especially suitable for interfacing with legacy or current systems.

Caravan Business Server is installed in your Web site (executes on IBM OS/2 Warp or Windows NT). All you need to do is place embedded code (tags) in HTML documents.Caravan Business Server's HTML operating system does the rest.Hurdles to building advanced Web sites and Intranet simply disappear.

By the way, that was just a short introduction to Caravan Business Server. You will learn more as we go along. As you begin using Caravan Business Server, you will experience the power and pleasures of Caravan Business Server.

Caravan Business Server is being used by web-designers with limited or no programming skills to advanced programmers specializing in dynamic web-site construction.

Think you can build web sites as advanced as Yahoo or Amazon.com with Caravan Business Server? Indeed, you can. All you need to know is HTML and a bit of programming.