XBAND SERVER INFOS
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Taken from a forum
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chadtower: 

Well, anything is possible. But IIRC the XBand server suite ran on Sun SPARC server hardware 
under Solaris, and required three or four machines. (It was dramatically overdesigned.) It 
also required a database, and I'd be willing to bet it'd only work with Oracle. 
And it's five years old... and software doesn't age well as a rule.


Betcha thought this conversation was dead!)

Well, I've been slowly following up on this. Today I got an email forwarded from the ex VP of
Engineering of Catapult, and it turns out his company bought the XBand assets. He says that 
over the summer he gave the source code to some folks on one of these web boards; 
however, they were a buncha college students in Canada, and the sheer daunting size of the
task--combined with them heading back to school--means that he suspects that particular 
porting effort is dead.

I spoke to another engineer, who told me some of what the server suite was like. Yes, it was 
written for Solaris, but it shouldn't be impossible to port it to Linux. Yes, it relied on 
the current Oracle of the time, but it shouldn't be impossible to port it to MySQL or
something equivalent.

The big sticking point is the XBand modem connectivity. XBand used an ANI phone bank to 
handle incoming calls; these are still quite expensive, both in setup and in monthly 
running costs. Perhaps you could change this to a more distributed service, having the 
XBand modem dial a local dialin modem on someone's Linux box, then spoofing the network 
traffic (apparently a modified form of ADSP (Appletalk)) over the net to a "central" XBand
server. But that would be an astonishing amount of work. I'll continue following up, and 
who knows, maybe more folks will get a copy of the XBand source tree. But I remain quite 
dubious that XBand will ever rise again. 