News: Press Release
Scalix Expands Commitment to Open Source through Licensing Agreement with HP
SAN MATEO, CA AND O’REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION, PORTLAND, OR—JULY 26, 2006 —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.
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 for the enterprise market,” said Glenn Winokur, president and CEO, 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, HP. “The extension of our licensing agreement will enable Scalix to continue to move the technology forward as an open source solution for global enterprises.”
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. 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 ways to escape vendor lock-in and their ‘must have’ list matches the Scalix offering – natively-supported Outlook via 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 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.
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