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LinuxForce Products and Services

The essence of LinuxForce's Products and Services is that we build open source based solutions to meet business requirements. Below is a brief description of the full complement of our product and service offerings.

• LinuxForce Software Solutions: In the modern computing world, software is the linchpin. LinuxForce installs, integrates, and develops software to meet business requirements. LinuxForce Software Solutions typically build upon the huge library of available open source software.
• LinuxForce Open Source Planner^SM: a software planning service to assist your organization in developing an Open Source Plan suitable for your business.
• LinuxForce Systems Audits: LinuxForce has experience auditing single Linux systems and whole networks. We audit systems, services, and/or source code to understand the strengths, weaknesses and relevant functionality, and to document the salient issues needed to meet your audit objectives.
• LinuxForce Security Audits: A recent study by CSO Magazine, the Secret Service and CERT shows that online crime costs are rising. LinuxForce can audit systems, services, and source code for security vulnerabilities so your organization has the information needed to protect itself and ensure the public and/or investors of its systems' cybersecurity readiness.
• LinuxForce's Migration Services: LinuxForce is the Linux migration expert in the greater Philadelphia area. We provide professional services to migrate systems and/or their services to Open Source Software, Linux, or Debian GNU/Linux. Whether you are migrating from Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Fedora, Solaris, or Windows, we can get your services running on your new Linux platform.
• LinuxForce Network Services LinuxForce provides installation, configuration, integration, customization, modification, extention, hardware, and other professional services in support of most open source server software. Our Remote Responder^SM software/service product is typically included with the Network Services we provide since it offers support for the service on an on-going basis. The following types of server software are typical (however, many more are available):
  • Mail (routing) Server: Sendmail or Exim based. Includes system-wide and per user SpamAssassin (an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam) and anti-virus protections (Clam AntiVirus).
  • Web (retrieval) Server: POP3, IMAP2, IMAP3
  • Web Mail Server: SquirrelMail, imp (Internet Messaging Program)
  • E-Commerce Web Server: osCommerce, Interchange.
  • File and Print Servers: Samba or AppleTalk (netatalk)
  • Web Server: Apache, PHP, Mason, etc.
  • Secure Web server: Apache-ssl, PHP, Mason, etc.
  • Web Application Server: PHP, Mason, Java, Jboss
  • LDAP Server: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: openldap
  • Database Server: MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • DNS Server: bind
  • IPSEC VPN Server: OpenSWAN
  • DHCP server: DHCP
  • Proxy server: squid
  • Firewall: netfilter/iptables
  • Software Development server: C, C++, Perl, Java, Python, lisp, and dozens more
  • Small Office Multi-Function server: File/Print, web, database, & etc.
  • X11 Desktop system: Gnome, KDE or others
  • Office Desktop: OpenOffice.org
  • Professional typesetting: LaTeX
• Remote Responder^SM: outsourced Linux® systems management and monitoring services to "look after your systems so you can look after your business".
• Service Monitoring: Our service monitoring software checks the functionality of your Internet connected services for outages and reports failures via e-mail and pager to our staff. Any Internet connected device including Windows, Apple, and other proprietary devices can be monitored with our system.
• Web Solutions: LinuxForce provides a complete set of web solutions to meet the needs of an organization's Internet presence. Typically we find and install open source web software that will meet your needs. In addition we can provision custom web software that LinuxForce develops on a contract basis. We can help a business at most any stage of the web development or deployment process: From soup to nuts to hosting one application to HTML coding.
  • LinuxForce Web Development Case Study.
  • Web Site Hosting: We run apache, apache-ssl, and PHP on our web hosting servers. Web site hosting case study.
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO): We can optimize your web site for search engines.
• LinuxForce For Schools: LinuxForce has a suite of offerings aimed at the educational market. These include the following:
  • LFLC: The LinuxForce Learning Center: A web-based service for schools to provide complete or supplementary course materials on a class-by-class basis.
  • LFMS: The LinuxForce Moodle Server: A server with the Moodle course infrastructure provided to schools who want to run their own web-based courses from their own server.
  • LinuxForce Web Site Hosting for Schools: LinuxForce runs a web site hosting service. Schools can rent space on this server. See our case study at http://www.linuxforce.net/casestudies.html?article=2003.01#constitutional.
  • LinuxForce Web Development for Schools: Linux has been developing Internet and WWW based educational programs with the Franklin Institute Science Museum for over two years. See our case study at http://www.linuxforce.net/casestudies.html?article=2003.03#fimason
  • LinuxForce Educational Workstations: Linux supports a number of educational software tools identified by UNESCO. The LinuxForce Educational Workstation includes many of these tools pre-installed and ready to run. Significant training may be required. Open Source in School Computer Labs.
  • LinuxForce Software and Professional Services: LinuxForce offers the market a wide range of software and professional services to businesses and educational organizations such as the Franklin Institute Science Museum.