A period of transition as Adobe deals with its Macromedia inheritance and the changing nature of the web.

Adobe builds on its print strengths to take its rich design mission online. And it has made a success of it, too.

Adobe significantly strengthens its print, web and production workflows – and the integration between them

It’s what the professional audio market has to offer podcasters and budding musicians -- but quality comes at a cost.

A comprehensive set of security tools in one package, with a convenient and easy-to-use interface.

Absolutely blitzing the competition, Altech takes out our highly coveted Labs Winner Award, just beating IBM to the top spot. Heavy on both the features and quality, this unit was one of only three units in the roundup to feature a 17in TFT display, with the others, the Pluscorp INTEQ V26 and Apple iMac, falling by the wayside on price, hardware spec and performance.

While you might not immediately think of Apple when it comes to business workstations, the iMac is a solid self-contained package, and does appeal to this market.

Dell has seen considerable success in the consumer PC market, and has drawn on the expertise gained in that market to drive into the business market over the past several years.

Maya, from Alias (previously known as Alias | Wavefront) has long been a big name in 3D animation, but after receiving an Academy Award, things look set to get even bigger. Now in its fifth incarnation, Maya should be even better than before, so what's new?

WinZip has become the most popular archival program used on the Windows platform, and it’s good to see some serious innovation in this revision.

The IBM NetVista M42 business PC offers a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with 256MB DDR RAM and a 40GB hard disk.

Businesses have come to rely on Acer workstations for their stability and usability without a huge price tag, and this system easily fulfills these requirements.

Macromedia Flash (May 2002, page 60), Dreamweaver, Fireworks and FreeHand (Studio MX, November 2002, page 71), have all been given the MX treatment, and now it's Director's turn.

Macromedia Contribute is a program for managing and updating Website content and has been designed for businesses without access to technical Website administration resources. Therefore it's perfect for non-technical computer users for managing their Website.

To be fair, if you were going to deploy Netware 6, you would have a trained Novell engineer (CNE) configure it on a Netware 6-certified box from a major manufacturer. We, nevertheless, decided to wipe our Windows 2000 clone server and start afresh with Netware.

Dells all-black PowerEdge is certainly one of the coolest-looking systems of the bunch, but the 600SC also packs enough power to be a formidable SMB server

Once you get past the Taurus extremely small form factor and use it, its best feature becomes apparent: its ease of use.

Emagens entry is a fairly mixed system, with some excellent and some average features

This rather unusual system from MCT has a bit of everything.

QuarkXPress defines and dominates high-end publishing in much the same way as Adobe Photoshop does photo editing.