Linux and Open Source Messaging Leader Scalix Expands Into Japan.Scalix Japan Formed; Award Winning Email and Calendaring Platform Will Be Localized, Sold and Supported in Japan SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Scalix Corporation, the leading provider of Linux and open source-based email, calendaring and messaging for enterprises, today announced its expansion into the Japanese market with the creation of Scalix Japan. All of Scalix's award-winning messaging products, including Enterprise Edition, Small Business Edition and Community Edition, will be localized, sold and supported in Japan starting in the first quarter of 2007. "Japan is one of the world's largest markets for IT products, and Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. are increasingly turning to Linux and open source solutions," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are confident that in Japan we can replicate the success we've had bringing enterprise-class messaging to customers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe. The formation of Scalix Japan will accelerate our growth in this important market." Scalix will localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. its products and documentation for the Japanese market, in addition to providing a Japanese language Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. community forum, wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. , evaluation download site and other resources. The Scalix products already support multi-byte languages, and come with a localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. kit for channel partners and customers. A pre-release Japanese version of Community Edition is available for download now on the Scalix Japan website: http://www.scalix.co.jp/. Expansion into Japan further demonstrates Scalix's commitment to providing organizations around the world with a robust, field-tested Linux and open source alternative to the high cost of proprietary messaging and collaboration. Enterprises have deployed the Scalix Enterprise Edition and Small Business Edition in over 55 countries, another 60,000 have downloaded the Scalix Community Edition, and well over 1 million mailboxes are installed worldwide. The Scalix messaging product has been widely recognized for offering innovations such as an AJAX-based web client, transparent, full-function Outlook compatibility, and a rich web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. platform, while at the same time meeting very real customer needs for reliability, robustness, and lower cost of ownership. Scalix recently announced it is contributing portions of its source code to the open source community, allowing developers to further integrate and extend the Scalix messaging platform. About Scalix Corporation Scalix is the leading Linux email, calendaring and messaging company, addressing the needs of CIOs, email administrators and end users to have a Linux-based, open source-supported, field-tested collaboration environment. With over 1 million mailboxes worldwide, 60,000 Community Edition downloads, more than 3,000 community forum members and over 425 corporate customers, Scalix is the most robust Linux-based email and calendaring platform available to enterprises today. Scalix products are available online at www.scalix.com and through Linux resellers worldwide. Scalix is a trademark of Scalix Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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