News: Press Release
Linux Email Leader Scalix Launches Scalix 10 With Advanced Enterprise Functionality
High Availability and Cross-Platform Calendaring Top List of New Capabilities
SAN MATEO, CA — FEBRUARY 14, 2006 — Scalix, the leading provider of enterprise email and calendaring on Linux, today announced Scalix 10. Scalix 10 enables organizations to achieve 99.999% email availability, perform cross-platform calendaring and scheduling, and provide enhanced rich email clients to all their users. It also simplifies email administration and strengthens the Scalix server to improve email and calendaring for medium and large organizations.
"We require an enterprise-standard email system that allows us to provide email and calendaring to widely distributed users at a reduced cost," said Michel Khan, IT Director, Specsavers Optical Group, a retailer with 745 stores across Europe. "The enhancements in Scalix 10 and in particular the improvements to Scalix Web Access should enable us to deploy email efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively."
“More than ever, Scalix 10 is enterprise-ready,” said Glenn Winokur, Scalix Chief Executive Officer. “We have listened to scores of Scalix customers with hundreds of thousands of users around the globe, and we have responded with enhancements that they value most. With Scalix, customers get the best of two worlds: a solid, field-proven technology core that is highly reliable, with cutting edge innovations like a powerful AJAX web email client and cross-platform inter-organizational calendaring.”
SIMPLER COST-EFFECTIVE HIGH AVAILABILITY
Email is mission critical today and organizations have invested in costly and complex high availability solutions. Even so, email systems regularly go down. The high availability functionality of Scalix 10 provides a critical safeguard in keeping workers online and productive. It leverages leading open source and Linux clustering technology to automatically detect failed messaging services and reroute email traffic to alternate servers for 99.999% uptime. The high availability architecture supports both active/active and active/passive clustering. In contrast with other messaging solutions such as Microsoft Exchange, Scalix 10 high availability is much less complex and lower cost. The high availability functionality is free as part of Scalix Enterprise Edition.
CROSS-PLATFORM CALENDAR AND SCHEDULING
Scalix 10 addresses the growing frustration of scheduling meetings with users on multiple platforms and across organizational boundaries. Until now, there has been no easy way for users of different desktops, email clients or email systems to automatically share calendaring information and schedule meetings through their calendars. Scalix 10 enables users on a variety of platforms to be full participants in an enterprise calendaring solution. Using iCal, Scalix 10 provides cross-platform calendar interoperability, providing transparent exchange of meeting requests and responses between Scalix and email systems such as Exchange, Notes/Domino and GroupWise.
ENHANCED RICH EMAIL CLIENTS
Scalix’s AJAX based webmail client, Scalix Web Access (SWA), continues to receive industry acclaim for its rich feature set and a user interface which so closely resembles desktop clients like Outlook that it is easy to forget you are using a browser. In fact, many Scalix customers are opting to use SWA exclusively, foregoing the cost and complexity of deploying desktop email clients altogether. With Scalix 10, the company has further enhanced SWA with an enhanced user interface, integrated address book personal distribution lists and several more functions that enable it to act as a primary email client.
"SWA provides all of the functionality that most people today are used to in a fat client email environment, yet in a lean and well designed web user interface," said Finn Schulz, Vice President, Information Technology, Rezidor SAS Hospitality, one of the fastest growing hospitality companies in the world, operating 263 hotels in 49 countries. "Scalix lets us combine an easy-to-use user interface with an open back-end platform."
Scalix 10 also includes ScalixConnect for Evolution, the popular open source email and calendaring client that runs on a Linux desktop. This addresses the growing need to let Linux desktop users participate in organization-wide email, scheduling and collaboration. ScalixConnect for Evolution provides full-function access to integrated email, calendar and contact data, with full interoperability with Microsoft Outlook and SWA.
Scalix 10 also enhances Scalix's robust Outlook support with digital signatures, group-by and view-by capabilities, faster advanced find and an advanced rules wizard filter. It enhances the Scalix Wireless solution by including a streamlined user interface, a multi-tasking client and background synchronization.
SIMPLER ADMINISTRATION AND GLOBAL POLICY ENFORCEMENT
A number of enhancements have been made to the AJAX based Scalix Administration Console in Scalix 10, such as global password management to facilitate policy enforcement and automated reporting of user mailbox size. Installation and configuration of the Scalix 10 server has also been simplified, while still allowing for command line access for advanced users.
SERVER ENHANCEMENTS
Scalix 10 now supports the ability to host multiple Scalix domains on a single server, making it attractive to service providers looking to offer a hosted solution. It provides 64-bit support for Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and SuSE Linux OSS 10 operating systems, enabling the Scalix server to take advantage of the increased memory and CPU power enabled by these systems.
AVAILABILITY
Scalix 10 is available immediately, in both the advanced Enterprise Edition and the free, unlimited-use Community Edition that can be downloaded from Scalix’s website. For details on Scalix 10, go to www.scalix.com.
ABOUT SCALIX CORPORATION
Scalix is the leading provider of enterprise email, calendaring and collaboration software based on Linux and open source. Scalix allows companies of all sizes 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 at all levels of the IT stack from the desktop to email related infrastructure components, helping them achieve independence from vendor, technology and licensing lock-in. Customers include the Fortune 1000, public sector and higher education . The privately held company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices and distribution partners in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. For more information, visit www.scalix.com.
Contact Information
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Barbara Krause
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