Fax2Send is a fax server

Fax server

A fax server is a system installed in a local area network server that allows computer users whose computers are attached to the LAN to send and receive fax messages...

 software system produced by Beacon Computer Services, in the U.K. It is subject to a proprietary

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

 licence.

The system is available in versions for Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 and Solaris

Solaris Operating System

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, has been owned by Oracle Corporation since Oracle's acquisition of Sun in January 2010....

 operating systems. It includes APIs to facilitate embedding faxing functionality in server applications.

Client interfaces include e-mail

E-mail

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

, virtual printer

Virtual printer

A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer....

s, and special bundled client software. The client software is available in versions for Unix/Linux (running under X

X Window System

The X window system is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces and rich input device capability for networked computers...

), and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

; it allows the sending and receiving and management of faxes, and administration of user settings including coverpages. Also included is a Windows ActiveX component, which facilitates embedding faxing functionality into Windows client applications.

The company also produces U-Fax

U-Fax

U-Fax is a fax server software system for Unix servers, produced by Beacon Computer Services, in the UK. It is subject to a proprietary licence.The software include APIs to facilitate embedding faxing functionality in other server applications....

, for Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

servers.