The former that acted as the ‘internal Domino server'was placed behind a firewall¹¹. It replicated databases through the firewall to the external server. The replication, which was encrypted, represented the primary means by which the FDRS system achieved security.

Netfinity 3000 acted as an ‘external Domino server.'It had public information and was also the primary communication linkage for dealers. The back-end of the FDRS was equipped with an Oracle database that updated the internal Domino server database with order information.

The updation was done using Lotus Enterprise Integrator. The data which was replicated to the internal Domino server included lists of valid dealers and lists of order numbers.