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BarracudaDrive is an easy to use Web Server for non techies and is now
available with a free license. The included license for the 3.9 beta
version expires Wednesday, June 11, 2008 with only some features
expiring.

The new version includes a Content Management System (CMS) and an
Electronic Bulletin Board (forum).

The free CMS makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a
document in Microsoft® Word. You can edit directly using the
integrated editor or paste in content from other editors such as
Word. There is no need for an HTML editor or a web
designer. Everything you need is already integrated into the CMS. The
free CMS is so easy to use you can have your grandmother be your new
webmaster.

The free forum is designed using cutting edge web-technology and looks
and behaves more like a traditional Windows application than a web
application. After the initial load, the bulletin board is extremely
fast since the bulletin board is using AJAX technology when
communicating with the server.

Online demos are now available for the CMS and the forum on our
BarracudaDrive 3.9 powered web sites. As an example, you can subscribe
to the following two RSS feeds:

* CMS powered blog feed: http://barracudadrive.net/blog/blog.rss

* Forum powered feed: http://barracudaserver.com/forum/rss/

In addition to the two new plugins, BarracudaDrive includes the following:

* A WebDAV server that makes it possible to map your remote
BarracudaDrive server as a standard Windows drive.

* A Web File Manager that lets you manage your files using a browser,
view photos, and stream music using the integrated MP3 player.

* A HTTPS tunnel server, which provides easy external Intranet access.

* Various HTTPS tunnel clients such as the SSL VPN alternative GetMyLAN.

BarracudaDrive 3.9 beta download instructions:
http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/beta.lsp

For Web designers and developers

Developers can customize and write their own applications by using the
integrated scripting language Lua Server Pages, which is based on the
super fast scripting language Lua. The server includes its own
integrated database engine, thus making it possible to create
configuration less database powered applications such as the CMS. The
server also includes Bindows, a "zero-footprint" Rich Internet WEB 2.0
Application framework. Database and AJAX powered WEB 2.0 applications
such as the included forum can easily be developed using the
BarracudaDrive web server.

The integrated scripting language Lua Server Pages (LSP) is similar to
how ASP and PHP works. BarracudaDrive LSP applications are deployed as
standard ZIP files. The ZIP files, which are in the "applications" sub
directory are loaded and mounted as read only file systems by the web
server. The server can also load "non deployed" applications. The "non
deployed" Lua Server Pages (LSP) are compiled on demand just like PHP
and ASP pages are compiled.

See the online LSP documentation for more information:
http://barracudaserver.com/doc/Lua/