Universal Computer Services



Company name:	Universal Computer Services
Contact:	Alex Harin
Phone:	+27 11 339 6111
Fax:	+27 11 339 3421
E-Mail:	alex@ucs.co.za
WWW URL:	http://www.ucs.co.za/

We provide customised distributed IT solutions for large retail enterprises. For our newsest client, a clothing chain with about 160 branches in Southern Africa, we have used exclusively Linux as the NOS platform, for central processing, warehousing, in-store servers and point-of-sale machines.



Universal Computer Services 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 lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
  • Print spooler using samba (PC clients)
• Modem communications:
  • Server answers the phone, provides PPP, SLIP or term logins.
• Internet client software - WWW
  • Lynx.
• Internet client software - mail
  • Pine.
• Electronic mail server:
  • POP-3 server.
  • IMAP server.
  • SMTP server (sendmail, others).
  • SMTP mail router.
• Network services provided to local users:
  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • News server or cache.
  • Accepts telnet connections.
  • Services finger requests.
  • Runs one or more database servers.
• Network services provided to remote users over dial-up or the Internet:
  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • Accepts telnet connections.
  • Services finger requests.
• Software development tools:
  • C and/or C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
  • Others.

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