First Data Resources/Digital CD-ROM Services



Company name:	First Data Resources/Digital CD-ROM Services
Contact:	Lars Erickson
Phone:	402-777-0000

First Data Resources (of First Card Services) is one of the larges credit card processing companies in the united states. Digital CD-ROM Services is a subsidiary company that takes Mainframe data to port it on CD-ROM. The servers that are used for production all run Linux/Caldera as their main plattform. Linux has been a very successful operating system for all. Thanks



First Data Resources/Digital CD-ROM Services uses Linux for the following functions:

• X-Windows:
  • X-Windows terminal (display, keyboard, mouse -- applications run elsewhere)
  • X-Windows server (runs applications, possibly exports display)
• Network file server:
  • NFS server for other PCs and Unix systems.
  • File server for other types of clients.
• Desktop environment:
  • KDE.
• HTTP servers
  • Apache.
• Databases
  • mySQL.
• Internet client software - WWW
  • NetScape Navigator.
• Internet client software - mail
  • Pine.
  • Elm.
• Network services provided to local users:
  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
  • Accepts telnet connections.
  • Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
• Software development tools:
  • C and/or C++
  • Perl
  • Tcl/Tk
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
  • Others.

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