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.

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• PostgreSQL
• Our database server of choice.

• 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.

• Apache HTTP Server
• OpenSWAN
• We use openswan for our VPN/ipsec needs.

• 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