"IUCLID (International Uniform ChemicaL Information Database) is a software application to capture, store, maintain and exchange data on intrinsic and hazard properties of chemical substances. It is a key software application essential for chemical industry to comply with the new legislation, which entered into force on 1 June 2007. The freely downloadable tool will assist chemical companies globally in fulfilling their obligation to submit data to the Agency under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation from 1 June 2008." [http://ecbwbiu5.jrc.it/index.php?fuseaction=home.project&type=public]

IUCLID is distributed in two forms - essentially, a paid for version and a 'roll-your-own' version. Installation of the latter can be considerably cheaper than the former, but requires a level of technical expertise (systems and database management) which some organisations do not posess.

Vitell are able to provide installation and support of and for IUCLID. Our rates start at £500 for provision of a VMWare appliance configured for your network, with your LEOX information and set up for your users. Maintenance of a VMWare appliance starts at £500 per year.

We are able to provide complete systems (hardware), again configured as per your specification and prices start from £1000 with maintenance available starting from £1000 per year.

If neither of the above options are suitable, please call us to discuss your requirements.

For the benefit of those customers, we have written a comprehensive document listing exactly what is required to install Asterisk under the CentOS 5.x Linux distribution. The instructions even show what is necessary to download and install Asterisk, so if you're feeling particularly adventurous........!

Digium | Asterisk World is the premier open communication event for the channel that encompasses the world of open source platforms and applications in the realm of IP communications. Whether you are a service provider, VAR, systems integrator or someone who is rolling out IP communications internally, Digium | Asterisk World is the place to be.

Nick will be speaking on "Opening Markets with Open Source" and answering the questions:

Digium | Asterisk World is running alongside VON.x Europe, a conference well worth attending if you're intrested in pretty much any voice technology.

See you there!

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2007-027.pdf

Essentially, if your SIP or IAX users are defined without a password (e.g. if you're using host based authentication), then IP addresses are not checked against the permit/deny entries.

The quick fix is to start using passwords! The longer fix is to upgrade to Asterisk 1.2.26 or 1.4.16.

Interested in providing a common standardised platform for their internal infrastucture, this company has decided that Asterisk is the way forward. They hope to replace the existing myriad of hardware and systems with one common platform - Asterisk.

Vitell has provided Asterisk and Advanced Asterisk training for this organisation giving them an understanding of the types of services Asterisk is able to offer and giving examples of the ways Asterisk can be integrated into their existing systems with a view to taking them over.

With another course booked, Vitell is looking forward to spreading the gospel according to Asterisk.

Twice a year, the Solihull branch of the National Childbirth Trust hold an 'As New Sale' to raise funds for the charity. Historically, this has been organised manually with a huge time burden placed on the few organisers. Vitell have provided the charity with a full management suite, including a telephone registration system (using Asterisk and MySQL), a web based registration system (LAMP) and software for the accounting process on the day.

Typically, the sales are visited by about one thousand people buying items from about one hundred sellers - registering the sellers before the event, providing the information packs, personalised labels and other documents and then ensuring they are paid the correct amount after the event was quite a task.

Whilst this may seem to be a small project, Vitell have written the systems such that they can be expanded and applied to other NCT branches. What's more, Vitell have released the complete source code of the application under the Creative Commons "Attribution-Share Alike 2.0" licence.

This year, it's one branch, next year, who knows?