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In order to use the site most successfully, we recommend that you use the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can download Internet Explorer for free from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm.
The Corpfin.Net site is designed for optimum viewing at a monitor display setting of 800x600 pixels.
Documents (principally member reports) identified as PDF are in Adobe Acrobat format. To view these documents you need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC, you can download a free copy of the software from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
Once you have downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader you will need to install it by following the instructions provided by Adobe.
Corpfin.net resides on Amazon EC2 cloud servers located in Virginia (us-east-1). All interactions with the site occurring in the "Payment" and "Member" sections of the site run under SSL (Secure Socket Layer) authentication by GeoTrust, a leading standard for authenticating and securing commerce on the internet.
The site is written in Perl (http://www.perl.com) and employs a MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) relational database. The PDF generation parts of the site are provided via PDFlib.