Hosting environments

The following technical platforms are available for deployment of websites and web based applications. Combining, mixing and matching of the following is common.

Premier Support:

• OpenText Web Solutions (aka RedDot)
• Identity Management (eDirectory, Active Directory and LDAP)
• IBM WebSphere
• Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g
• IBM FileNet Enterprise Content Management

Active Support:

• Microsoft IIS 7, Windows 2008 Server
• .NET / asp
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL - Perl, PHP, Python) - SUSE Linux
• Apache/Tomcat
• Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition
• SQL/Server 2005, 2008
• SAP NetWeaver
• Drupal, joomla
• Flash Media Server

A variety of supporting applications are deployed such as Subversion, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Webtrends, etc. There is also a government survey application available.

Hardware platforms are predominately IBM BladeCenter and VMWARE ESX with some SUN and IBM RISC plaforms as well. SUSE Linux, Windows 2008, AIX and Solaris are the standard OS's deployed.

More information can be obtained from CITO: cito@gov.ns.ca.