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In my review last year of Tenon Intersystems iTools 7 for Mac OS X, I found the product had some value for Mac OS X users, with its ability to ease management of the Apache Web server and its inclusion of useful server add-ons such as DNS, an e-mail server, an FTP server and secure connections.
However, the recent releases of iTools 7.2 for Red Hat Linux and iTools 7.3 for Fedora Linux dont provide the same level of value for open-source operating system users. Yes, iTools for Red Hat and iTools for Fedora provide the same added server capabilities as their Mac OS X counterpart, and the browser-based administration interface is fairly intuitive and simple to use .
But these additions dont play as well on Linux as on Mac OS X. First, Linux has these server capabilities for free. And, in general, Linux users are more comfortable performing the standard file-based configurations for Apache.
In addition, on Linux, iTools faces competition on the commercial side from Covalents superior Apache management tools. On the free open-source side, tools such as Webmin are in many ways better than iTools.
However, at $99, iTools for Linux is less than one-third of the cost of iTools for Mac OS X.
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