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[Matthew X]

The forerunner of the Law Enforcement Data Exchange (LEDX) was a system 
known as DocuShare, developed and marketed by Stamford, Conn.-based Xerox Corp.
The product started out as a way for five company research centers to 
collaborate and share information, said Colman Murphy, Xerox's DocuShare 
product manager.
"So they designed it to be secure but also to make it very easy for 
distributed work groups to build collaborative spaces and to share 
information," he said. "So it has a lot of security capabilities built into 
it, like the user name and password control on not just areas of the 
DocuShare server...but actually right down to each individual document.
"The users themselves get to control that access. I, as the user, can 
decide who else can view this document down to the individual level. Also, 
the site itself can be administered among the users. So it distributes the 
administration mode across the organization. You don't have to have a large 
[information technology] organization to set it up, to administer it, to 
manage the content, to give people permission. All of that can be 
distributed across the organization."
Murphy said the product could store any document in its original format. 
The application also includes filters to convert more than 200 file formats 
to HTML quickly and easily.
Larry Hunt, chief engineer and chief executive officer of Integrated 
Digital Systems/ScanAmerica Inc., tried to come up with a better way to 
exchange information among the Internet Crimes Against Children task force 
centers. Because his company was one of Xerox's top value-added resellers 
and because he was familiar with DocuShare, Hunt modified the product and 
called it LEDX.
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