Weston Vinyls Plc



Company name:	Weston Vinyls Plc
Contact:	Mike Yates
Phone:	+44-1373-456821
Fax:	+44-1373-473624
E-Mail:	myates@weston-vinyls.com
WWW URL:	http://www.weston-vinyls.com

Rolling out PVC into foil, in 4000 colours, we are an intermediate manufacturer, employing 120 people on one site. We used Linux initially as a WAN router during a year in which we had another siter in Croydon, using dial-on-demand ISDN which proved utterly reliable, as fast and cheaper than leased-line. The Croydon server clocked up 207 days uptime once. We now have all public Windoze files under Samba and Sqid provides internet connectivity by ISDN.



Weston Vinyls Plc 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.
• Print server:
  • Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
  • Print spooler using samba (PC clients)
• Modem communications:
  • Users can initiate PPP connections to remote systems.
• Desktop environment:
  • KDE.
  • GNOME.
• Office productivity software:
  • Document preparation with Star Office.
  • Graphics prepared with GIMP.
• Backup services
  • Tar.
• HTTP servers
  • Apache.
• Databases
  • mySQL.
  • Oracle.
• Internet client software - WWW
  • NetScape Navigator.
  • Other browsers.
• Internet client software - mail
  • Netscape's mail client.
• Network management:
  • Internet or WAN firewall.
• Electronic mail server:
  • POP-3 server.
  • SMTP server (sendmail, others).
• Network services provided to local users:
  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • Anonymous ftp server.
• Software development tools:
  • C and/or C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Tcl/Tk
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
  • BASIC

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