E-MAIL AND E-COMMERCE
SOLUTIONS
Let us give your company
these two vital links to the outside world: e-mail
and e-commerce.
E-MAIL
There
is no need to invest major dollars into an Exchange™ server to provide your company
with e-mail and e-commerce services. A more economical and stable solution
is to plug a UNIX or Linux server into your network to do these functions. UNIX is a
very stable operating system, and once installed and running requires very
little maintenance.
This gives you several important features:
-It allows for flexible and desirable e-mail addresses such as
you@yourcompany.com rather than assigned ones like jlfinch444@aol.com.
- It allows you to limit the service that you buy from an ISP to only one mailbox rather than one
for each employee.
- It automatically collects your mail and distributes it to your employees without any human effort.
- Employees can send and receive e-mail quickly without waiting for modem
connections to be established.
- Mail
from your company server can be forwarded to another personal account at a
Hotmail or Yahoo server so you can pick it up from anywhere.
Your Unix server will do all of your e-mail collection, distribution, and
sending for you behind the scenes. It will log on to your ISP at any interval you set (hourly, 4 times per hour, or maintain
a constant connection) collect any mail waiting on your ISP, and send any mail that you have
queued up. You can set up as many e-mail addresses as you desire as long as you have a
corresponding login account set up on the Unix server. You pay one time for the program that
does this service and it performs continuously with no monthly charges. You can even set up aliases so that
mail addressed to "sales" will go to "john" and "techsupport" will go to "jim".
Once e-mail has been collected and is sitting on the Unix server,
users can access that mail in a number of ways. One is to use Netscape on the PC. Netscape will see the Unix server on
the network as it's e-mail server. The PC, with a click of "GET MSG", will log into the Unix
server, grab the e-mail addressed to that user, and display it in a graphical format, including
attachments of any type. For users who don't have a PC, but instead are using a dumb terminal,
there are a number of ways of displaying e-mail in a text mode.
There are a couple of ways to achieve this; one is a commercial application
which is sold by the user
license. Thus, if you want 10 people in your company to have e-mail, you purchase a 10-user
license. When someone leaves, you can re-assign their license to someone else.
You can add more user licenses at any time. You can also set up a Linux
server with the Sendmail program running.
You must establish an account with an Internet Service Provider,
and you must have a domain name registered with the InterNic. It costs about
$100/year to register this name and any ISP can hold your e-mail and web page files.
Call us to have this service installed at your company.
E-COMMERCE
For companies that have a web site that needs to be linked to a data base
containing commerce data such as inventory or order entry, we can provide that
service using filePro.
Anyone can design a web site and many people can design a data base, but
integration of the two real-time is a specialty. We can service that need.
