A server is what we used to call a minicomputer, a computer bigger than a desktop but not as big as a mainframe. You use them for hosting websites, not for home use. They have features to let them pump more transactions than a desktop. They also have features to make them more reliable. Sun, IBM, Unisys and HP are well-known server manufacturers.
Microsoft outlook
Microsoft bundles a pair of email programs Outlook and Outlook Express with their Windows OSes. Outlook Express is smaller and faster, but has fewer features.
Outlook Express is capable of forwarding messages without wrapping them in clumsy enclosures. Both programs are highly susceptible to viruses and worms that target them and their address lists.
Web Server
I bought this server to learn how to administrate a linux box (it's REDHAT, for now), and it has done it's job admirably. Currently it's running apache, PHP, and MYSQL, along with a few user applications. I've used it as an appleshare server (to share files and MP3s with my girlfriend) as well as a nightly sitescooper to feed my Palm reading addiction.
Exchange 2000 Server ist die ideale Lösung für Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen:
eit bei geringen Anschaffungs- und Folgekosten, was über die vereinheitlichte Verwaltung von Messaging-, Zusammenarbeit- und Netzwerkressourcen erreicht wird.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition is designed to meet the messaging and collaboration needs of small and medium corporations, and for specific messaging server roles or branch offices.
PRINT SERVER
The Loftware Print Server™, Starter Edition is the perfect solution for companies that want to begin using the LPS client/server technology at an entry-level price. This edition allows two (2) printer seats and one (1) client seat. This edition is expandable to multiple printer seats. The purchase of the Loftware Print Server™ includes a one-year renewable support contract, which features on-going software upgrades and unlimited technical support from Loftware's Technical Support Call Center.
DIRECTORY SERVER
Apache Directory Server is an open-source, Java-based implementation of numerous Internet protocols. The core of ApacheDS is a directory service that can store application data and perform search operations on different types of data. Protocol implementations work on top of the directory service to provide Internet services related to data storage, search, and retrieval.
FAX SERVER
Since 1989, Copia's FaxFacts fax software has set the standard for performance, reliability, and innovation. FaxFacts is the last fax software system you'll ever need to buy.
Easily installed and configured, FaxFacts provides automatic printing and routing for inbound faxes, load balancing, customized graphical cover sheets, extensive reporting capabilities, job administration, and the fastest fax broadcasting capabilities in the industry all from your Windows desktop.
Often referred to as simply "mail server", an email server is a computer within your network that works as your virtual post office. A mail server usually consists of a storage area where where e-mail is stored for local users, a set of user definable rules which determine how the mail server should react to the destination of a specific message, a database of user accounts that the mail server recognizes and will deal with locally, and communications modules which are the components that actually handle the transfer of messages to and from other mail servers and email clients.
