The company's Application Center 2000 server was released to manufacturing, which means the code is complete and CD-ROMs are being pressed for distribution.
General availability is likely in four to six weeks.
The server, first introduced in September 1999, was expected to ship before the end of last year. AppCenter provides management tools so that a cluster of as many as 32 Web servers can be maintained as if it were a single machine. The server also is designed to insure fault-tolerance for key Web applications, most notably electronic commerce. It also works in conjunction with the load-balancing features built into Windows 2000. Liu said managing Embark's Web server farm, which consists of 30 Windows 2000 servers and about eight applications, was a constant challenge.