News: Press Release
Scalix Named to Red Herring’s List of Top 100 Private Companies
MAY 11, 2004 — SAN MATEO, CA — Scalix Corporation, creator of the industry’s most powerful Linux-based email and calendaring platform, has been selected as one of Red Herrings’s Top 100 companies for 2004. Scalix was chosen from a pool of over 500 private global companies and is identified as being one of the most influential private technology companies impacting the market place.
"At the Red Herring, we scour the industry to identify the best and brightest technology companies that are transforming the current markets and creating new ones," said Alex Vieux, Red Herring publisher. "The Red Herring 100 is our annual list of the most promising private companies. Like Google, eBay, Salesforce.com and other previous Red Herring 100 alumni, these 100 have the potential to become the next titans of technology."
Scalix offers a rich function email and calendaring platform that ensures high reliability and low cost of ownership. Based on Linux and an Open Systems Architecture, Scalix provides a flexible and extensible solution that gives customers maximum choice at all levels of the computing stack. The Scalix platform scales up to support organizations with hundreds of thousands of users and scales down for offices with fewer than one hundred users, making it a viable alternative for a broad range of organizations.
Red Herring’s selection process was weighted to reflect the reality of survival in today's challenging marketplace: generating revenues, establishing a strong customer base and equally strong industry partnerships. Additionally, Red Herring significantly broadened its geographic scope across the globe to consider companies from 10 countries, including China, Japan, Israel, the U.K. and Germany. The full list can be found at http://www.redherring.com/EventsRH100.aspx.
ABOUT SCALIX CORPORATION
Scalix has created the industry's most powerful email and calendaring platform on Linux. Scalix offers rich functionality on a highly reliable and scalable platform that significantly reduces cost of ownership. Based on an open systems architecture, Scalix's next-generation messaging platform is based on a proven technology foundation, HP OpenMail, which Scalix licensed from Hewlett-Packard. Scalix's veteran team has helped pioneer the world's best messaging systems at IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, cc:Mail and Hewlett-Packard. The privately held company is backed by Mayfield, New Enterprise Associates and Mohr Davidow Ventures and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in New York, Chicago, United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit www.scalix.com or call 650-931-9400.
ABOUT RED HERRING
Red Herring, Inc., founded in 1993, is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its staff of award-winning journalists tell readers what's first, what matters and most importantly, why.
Red Herring is dedicated to thorough research, relevant metrics deep financial analysis, in-depth reporting, crisp writing and thoughtful debate. We are a skeptical, intelligent and trustworthy source of information in technology business. Our primary obligation is to provide the most relevant, honest and independent information and analysis to our audience, with the conviction that an exceptional editorial product is the best catalyst for success and the best way to serve our advertisers and investors. Our content is original, compelling and actionable for industry executives and entrepreneurs.
A privately held company, Red Herring, Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Contact Information
Krause Taylor Associates for Scalix
Barbara Krause
408.918.9081 direct
408.918.9080 main
barbara@krause-taylor.com
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