LINUX-BIZ: Mivtach-Simon Insurance Agencies
Mivtach-Simon is the largest insurance agency in Israel.
It deals with all aspects of life insurance, including
management of pension and provident funds and personal
financial planning.
All business and finance applications are run on linux servers.
Mivtach-Simon Insurance Agencies uses Linux for the following functions:
- X-Windows:
- 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.
- Print server:
- Print spooler using samba (PC clients)
- Backup services
- HTTP servers
- Databases
- Internet client software - WWW
- Electronic mail server:
- POP-3 server.
- SMTP server (sendmail, others).
- 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.
- Other services.
- Network services provided to remote users over dial-up or the Internet:
- Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
- Software development tools:
- C and/or C++
- Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
- Fortran
- Others.
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