Scalix Expands Commitment to Open Source Through Licensing Agreement With HP.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. & PORTLAND, Ore. -- Scalix today announced a new technology licensing agreement with HP that gives the open source community access to the source code of Scalix's award-winning enterprise email and collaboration software See collaborative software. . Under this new agreement, Scalix can freely distribute the source code portions of the software based on HP Open Mail, a technology developed by HP and first licensed to Scalix in 2003. Scalix's open source initiatives began after the company's unveiling in 2003 and leverages the recent success of the Scalix Community Edition, which has 10,000 servers and 1 million mail boxes deployed since being introduced in August 2005. "Enterprise customers continue to broaden their usage of Linux and many other open source based solutions around the world," said Mike Evans, vice president of corporate development, Red Hat. "Scalix offers customers a strong alternative to proprietary email and messaging solutions. With this announcement, they also enable the opportunity for a strong community to be built around Scalix. We're pleased to see Scalix provide the value of an open source based model to the market." "We look forward to deepening our relationship with the open source community to further accelerate our adoption as the best 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. for the enterprise market," said Glenn Winokur, president and 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. , Scalix. "There are already over 2,000 registered members of the Scalix Community who have been providing us with enthusiastic input on how we can best engage with them. We will follow through with expansion of our open source programs in the coming weeks." "CIOs want enterprise-class, open source software that can solve real business problems and Scalix has successfully built on the HP Open Mail technology to address this need," said Christine Martino, vice president, Open Source and Linux Organization Hewlett-Packard Open Source and Linux Organization, earlier known as HP Linux group. The group has 100 Linux programmers, 300 products with free software and has released more than 300 open source printer drivers [1] External links Scalix Open Source Scalix began licensing HP Open Mail technology from HP in 2003 and released the first Scalix product in early 2004, after investing over 50 man years of enhancements and updates. In October 2004, Scalix was the first email and collaboration vendor to fully support Mozilla and Firefox on equal parity with Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. . In December 2004, Scalix introduced "ScalixReady for Open Source" a LAMP like stack of open source email ecosystem companion products certified for interoperability with Scalix. Scalix Community Edition, which has 10,000 servers and 1 million mail boxes in production deployment, was released in August 2005. In February, 2006 Scalix released its inaugural Open Source project, Scalix Connect for Evolution. "Scalix took the original HP Open Mail product and moved it forward as a strong alternative to Microsoft Exchange," added Winokur. "Our customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to escape vendor lock-in In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in, customer lock-in, lock-in is where a customer is dependent on a vendor for products and services and cannot move to another vendor without substantial switching costs, real and/or perceived. and their 'must have' list matches the Scalix offering -- natively-supported Outlook via MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. , combined with a robust, interoperable AJAX-based email/calendaring client that communicates flawlessly with a reliable, scalable and field-proven email server." About Scalix Corporation Scalix is the leading provider of enterprise email and collaboration software based on Linux and open source. Scalix provides an enterprise email and collaboration alternative to Microsoft Exchange, with full Outlook client support, on a Linux platform. 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. Scalix is a trademark of Scalix Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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