Information
Technology Infrastructure
Quality Benefits Inc.
The information technology infrastructure at Quality
Benefits Inc. (QBI) runs on an assortment of primarily open source goodies.
Following is a little blurb on some of the software that supports our
infrastructure.
- Linux
- Our OS of choice. We mainly use the debian distro.
- Caucho Resin
- Resin is a java application server which adheres
to the Java JSP/servlet spec from Sun. Although not open source it is a fast,
stable, servlet runner.
- Postfix
- We use the postfix mail transfer agent combined
with a couple of other pieces of software which provide spam filtering (SpamAssassin), virus scanning (Clam AntiVirus) and inspecting file
attachments for harmful content (Anomy).
- For our
in-house applications we use a variety of tools primarily based on java.
- Eclipse –
a great JAVA ide.
- Apache
Struts – provides the nuts and bolts for many of our internet/intranet
applications.
- Apache
Velocity – provides templating facilities for our internet/intranet
applications.
- Castor JDO
– a wonderful ORM tool which we use to abstract our sql.
- DJBDNS/TinyDNS – a secure DNS
Server and a replacement for bind.
- HylaFAX – a fax server software which
we have used for many a marketing campaign.
- IP Filter – firewalling code
that is tightly knit into openbsd, freebsd, netbsd.
- Blackdown – we use the Java SDK/JVM
from the blackdown project on linux to power our application server.
- UseMod Wiki – a simple
and elegant wiki solution which powers our company knowledge base.
- Samba – a neat little replacement for
Windows File and print sharing services.
- Rsync – a great little utility which
provides incremental file transfers.
- OpenSSH – a secure replacement for
telnet/ftp from the OpenBSD Project.
- SquirrelMail – a nice little tool
for webmail.
- CVS –
keeps track of our source