LINUX-BIZ: Starcom Software Pvt Ltd
We are a five year old software company based at India specialised into:
* Network infrastructure setup, management and consultancy and security
and system integrity.
* Network infrastructure support and managed operations services.
* Web application development and web infrastructure setup.
* Business process design and application design .
Starcom Software Pvt Ltd 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:
- Samba server for a network of PCs.
- NFS server for other PCs and Unix systems.
- File server for other types of clients.
- Print server:
- Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
- Modem communications:
- Server answers the phone, provides PPP, SLIP or term logins.
- Users can initiate PPP connections to remote systems.
- Desktop environment:
- Office productivity software:
- Document preparation with Star Office.
- Document preparation with TeX, LaTeX and derivatives.
- Graphics prepared with GIMP.
- Other document management.
- Backup services
- HTTP servers
- Databases
- Internet client software - WWW
- NetScape Navigator.
- Lynx.
- Internet client software - mail
- Pine.
- Netscape's mail client.
- Network management:
- Internet or WAN firewall.
- Electronic mail server:
- POP-3 server.
- IMAP server.
- SMTP server (sendmail, others).
- SMTP mail router.
- Network services provided to local users:
- HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
- ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
- Anonymous ftp server.
- Accepts telnet connections.
- Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
- Network services provided to remote users over dial-up or the Internet:
- ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
- Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
- Other services.
- Software development tools:
- C and/or C++
- Java
- Perl
- Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
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