Momentum Grows for Linux Email Provider Scalix, with Hundreds of New Customers, Thousands of Downloads of Free Version and Industry Accolades; Scalix Community Edition Server Downloaded 5,000+ Times In First Two Months.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, the leading provider of new generation enterprise email and calendaring on Linux, today announced that several hundred enterprises in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. have purchased Scalix for email and calendaring since it became commercially available in early 2004. In addition, Scalix Community Edition, the free, unlimited use version has been downloaded over 5,000 times since its introduction two months ago and continues to gain momentum among a growing community of enthusiastic supporters. Half of Scalix's customers are replacing Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , with the remaining half replacing Lotus Notes/Domino, Novell GroupWise GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. offering e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and document management. Summary GroupWise can operate on a number of server and workstation platforms. , SendMail and POP/IMAP email systems. "Customers are choosing Scalix for two important reasons," said Julie Farris, Scalix founder and chief strategy officer. "First, they have either standardized on or want to move to Outlook, but they want to avoid the excessive costs and complexity of a Windows messaging 1. (messaging) Windows Messaging - Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange. 2. (messaging) windows messaging infrastructure. Second, many organizations are thrilled to provide a large percentage of their users with a robust web mail client that combines the power of desktop mail and calendaring with the ease-of-use and ubiquity of the Internet." Scalix customers include Fortune 1000 as well as small and medium businesses in a cross-section of industries, including high tech, retail, manufacturing, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , transportation and hospitality. Customers include SAS/Radisson Hotels, Concordia Bus (top European transit system), the Cleveland Indians baseball team, Leoni Cable (global supplier of cable and wiring systems), Maico (premier provider of building technology systems), Optovision (German Optics firm) and a worldwide leader of network equipment. Scalix is also seeing strong demand from the public sector and educational institutions. Customers include the State of Massachusetts Trial Courts, Massachusetts State Police, City of Grand Rapids, City of Garden Grove, University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. MSE MSE Mouse (computer) MSE Materials Science & Engineering MSE Mean Squared Error MSE Mean Square Error MSE Master of Science in Engineering MSE Manufacturing Systems Engineering MSE Mechanically Stabilized Earth and Roger Williams University Roger Williams University, commonly abbreviated as RWU, is a private, coeducational American liberal arts university located on 120 acres in Bristol, Rhode Island, above Mt. Hope Bay. Founded in 1956, it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams. . Committed to making email and calendaring easily accessible to anyone in the world, Scalix introduced Community Edition, a free, unlimited use version, downloadable at http://www.scalix.com/communityedition/index.html. According to a survey of Community Edition users, 68% were planning to replace Microsoft Exchange. One user commented, "We are an IT consulting firm. Our clients are demanding more and more Linux solutions. Our clients are fed up with Windows, viruses and rebooting again and again just to apply an update to the system." The user survey also revealed that 70% of downloaders were attracted to Community Edition because of Scalix Web Access, a full-featured email and calendaring client that delivers Outlook functionality via a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Scalix Web Access delivers unmatched desktop grade functionality making it the industry's most advanced AJAX application. According to David Ferris, President of Ferris Research, a respected research firm focusing on the messaging market, "The best web client for the last couple of years has been, and continues to be, Scalix Web Access... This is a very impressive product." Scalix Web Access was also featured on the cover of InfoWorld magazine as a leading AJAX application and for its striking resemblance to Outlook. Community response to the Scalix Community Edition has been enthusiastic. "We are using Scalix Community Edition exclusively for our mail serving needs," said Mike Hartley, head of the Salem, Oregon, Linux Group. "I highly recommend that anyone interested in an email and calendaring platform check this product out first." Only 19% of Community Edition downloaders have sought technical support, a testament to its ease of installation and configuration. Over 83% of those that sought support received help from the Scalix Community Forum, the burgeoning community of Scalix users. Scalix also recently expanded its global distribution by partnering with the world's largest reseller of OpenXchange, RICIS RICIS Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems , Inc., which sells, installs, services, and supports Scalix through its partner network in 64 countries. "Scalix's growth is fueled by organizations clamoring to provide users with high-function Outlook support and robust web email, without the baggage of Exchange, the full commitment to Active Directory and the legacy of Windows," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix 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. . "They are benefiting from the increased reliability, security and performance of Linux and Scalix, and lower software licensing costs by avoiding vendor lock-in." Scalix has received industry acclaim for bringing innovation to email and calendaring as well as being a viable alternative to legacy proprietary messaging systems. Scalix was recently chosen Best Messaging Solution at LinuxWorld, making it a two time consecutive winner of this award. About Scalix Corporation Scalix is the leading provider of new generation email, calendaring and collaboration software. Based on Linux and open systems, Scalix allows companies to reduce the cost and complexity of their email environment with a richly-featured, reliable and scalable messaging solution that blends seamlessly with both open source and proprietary software, including Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Active Directory. Scalix offers customers flexibility and freedom of choice from the desktop to email related infrastructure components at all levels of the IT stack, helping them achieve independence from technology and licensing lock-in. Customers include Fortune 1000 enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions. Scalix has received industry acclaim and awards recognizing it as a leader in new generation messaging and collaboration. Scalix's team of messaging industry veterans has helped pioneer the world's most successful messaging systems at IBM/Lotus, cc:Mail, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with offices and distribution partners in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. For more information, visit www.scalix.com. |
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