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2003: Enterprise product reviews  
 
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Looking for firewalls? Switches? Security management? The InfoWorld Test Center presents a guide to all our hardware and software reviews of the year

By most metrics, 2003 was a down year for IT. But against the backdrop of leaner budgets, thinner staffs, and a depressed economy, IT vendors refined existing products and developed new ones to better meet the needs of enterprise customers. InfoWorld tracked this steady march of progress step by innovative step, reviewing more than 200 products in categories of every description during the past year -- .Net development tools, J2EE app servers, Web services integration solutions, 10Gig switches, wireless LAN gateways, NAS and SAN hardware, firewalls and VPNs, and on and on. In this year-end roundup, you’ll find all of our reviews (listed alphabetically by category, vendor, and product name) from 2003.

Applications  
Lots of good collaboration solutions, innovative analytics tools, and a few CRM gems

App Dev and Integration  
Wares for working wonders with .Net, Java, and Web services

Hardware  
Countless pizza boxes, blade systems, and rack-mount monsters built for speed

Networking  
Faster speeds, bigger feeds, and more control over IP networks

Platforms  
Two Windows, a lot of Linuxes, and five J2EE app servers

Security  
Sixty-eight solutions for protecting networks, and apps for thwarting intruders

Storage  
Triumphs in big storage, innovative IP SANs, and the value of virtualization

Wireless  
Eighteen products for building, managing, and securing WLANs


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