WebDAV-or Web distribution, authoring, and versioning-takes the Web past its most common role as a source for reading information (read-only), and allows for writing and updating. And it provides access to these new features via HTTP.
Gary Gershon, a Chubb consultant who is knee-deep in the company's selection and implementation of Xythos's Web File Server 3.0 solution, said Chubb looked at its internal processes and recognized the need to streamline everything not only to save money, but make information easily sharable across the board.
Gershon attributes Chubb's selection to Web File Server's enterprise scalability, its presentation as a vendor product, and a less intimidating license-by-server fee schedule. He said other WebDAV-compliant solutions were either too open in the architecture for Chubb's needs, too ambiguous about scalability, or were just not suited to Chubb's business type. (Some popular WebDAV solutions are designed specifically for the publishing industry.) The company launched a study and evaluation to find the right fit, and by the end of 2000 it had decided on Xythos. Implementation began this spring.
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