Its been a busy last couple of days for us here at Jumping Bean! During the short time since my last blog I have had to upgraded my laptop to use Ubuntu 6.06, had to upgrade some desktops to Suse10.1 and one server to Fedora core 5. All I can say is that I am very impressed with this round of distro releases. They are polished and very slick!

Drupal Setcom Payment Gateway

We developed the Setcom (www.setcom.com) plugin for Drupal's ecommerce component as none of the major payment gateways support ZAR. Setcom's setup allows for the shipping and client details to be maintained on setcom servers. All drupal needs to store is the returned shipping and billing address and whether the transfer has been successful or not.

You can now connect your business to the net 24 hours a day with Telkom's ADSL access. Although this always-on access brings many advantages it also brings a new set of problems and challenges such as:

• Security,
• Remote Access for staff, and
• Monitoring of staff usage of the internet

Jumping Bean supports an open source turn-key firewall solution that meets these challenges head on. Our solution includes software and optionally hardware (see below for pricing). The features provided by the solution include:

Corporate EMail Server

For many enterprises having your own mail server with mail stored in a central location for easy backup and follow up on customer queries is an important requirement. Our solution includes the software and, optionally hardware (See belw for pricing). Usually small businesses' have their email hosted at their service provider. This has several disadvantages.

SMEServer is a complete small business server solution for a windows or linux network at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. It can be used as a primary domain controller on a windows network and provides many features required by small workgroups or businesses. Besides the features that come with basic SMEServer many additional moudles are available.  Jumpimg Bean provides installation, configuration and maintenance support for SMEServer.

Jumping Bean offers the following Linux support, services and solutions: