LEDX Latest.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Tue Sep 10 11:17:58 PDT 2002
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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