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Scalix Announces Commercial Availability of Next-Generation, Enterprise-Class Collaboration Platform on Linux and Open Source.


Scalix 11, Featuring New 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, Mobile Web Client and Enhanced Outlook Support, Now Available

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 today announced the commercial availability of Scalix 11, its Linux-based email, calendaring and messaging platform. Previously available as a preview version, Scalix 11 is a field-tested, easy-to-administer system enabling deep integration with legacy environments. It includes a Web services platform and mobile web client, enhanced management capabilities and ongoing improvements to Scalix's award-winning web client and Outlook support.

"The commercial release of Scalix 11 has been highly anticipated by the Scalix community, who has already downloaded the preview version in record numbers," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's chief executive officer. "The intense interest in Scalix proves the need for an alternative to 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.  that integrates with current mission-critical applications like CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , provides the familiar Outlook desktop and yet also brings an industry-leading AJAX client for both users and administrators. Scalix 11 offers all of these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video
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 and more, and we're pleased to make it commercially available today."

New features in Scalix 11 include the following. More information can be found at www.scalix.com.

Scalix Web Services Platform:

Scalix Messaging Services are server-based REST APIs for cross-application integration, allowing companies to integrate their email and calendaring with critical applications like content management, mobile solutions, CRM and ERP. Scalix Management Services are SOAP-based APIs enabling management, administration and provisioning from the Scalix Administration Console.

Richest Web Client:

Scalix Web Access (SWA adv. 1. So. ) is an award-winning AJAX-based client that has the usability and performance to replace existing desktop clients altogether. Scalix 11 improves SWA with server-side search, full folder sharing, delegation, out-of-office assistant, address auto-completion, mouseover and right click functionality, and faster performance.

Scalix Mobile Web Client:

Supplementing Scalix's existing wireless capabilities, Scalix Mobile Web Client is a lightweight Web interface that enables basic mailbox access from cell phones, PDAs and hotel set-top boxes.

Best Outlook Support:

Scalix already offers the industry's most transparent Outlook support on Linux. Scalix's Outlook support has been enhanced further with Scalix 11, with SmartCache, indexed search and improved mobile performance.

Management and Administration:

Scalix 11 features Recovery Folder, a capability for rapid recovery of deleted items, and Scalix Migration Tool, which lets customers easily migrate data from Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 and other legacy systems.

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With Scalix's expanding deployments around the world, Scalix 11 enhances 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.  with full multi-byte language support and an open-source localization kit for support of all left-to-right languages.

About Scalix Corporation

Scalix is the leading Linux email, calendaring and messaging company. Scalix allows companies to reduce the cost and complexity of messaging with a richly-featured, field-proven collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels.  based on Linux and open standards, and supported by an open source development model. The Scalix products provide flexibility and freedom of choice, helping enterprises achieve independence from vendor, technology and licensing lock-in. With over 1 million mailboxes deployed, 90,000 Community Edition downloads, more than 4,000 community forum members and over 500 corporate customers, Scalix Collaboration Platform is the most field-proven Linux email and group calendaring solution available to enterprises today. 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.

Editors Note:

With the release of Microsoft Exchange 2007, many corporate customers are evaluating whether to upgrade or switch to a cost-effective and non-proprietary Linux alternative for their messaging and collaboration. Scalix has several customers willing to speak with the press about their choices. Contact us if you would like to speak with them (contact information below).
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