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Lycoris acquires Mitel SME Server spin-off (NewsForge)
NewsForge reports
that Lycoris is taking over the Contribs.org SME Server project.
"The SME Server platform has a chequered commercial history, and
Lycoris is the third company to assume control of the project. Originally
developed by Joe Morrison as a server distribution based on Red Hat Linux,
e-smith Server and Gateway was commercialised in 1999 when Morrison
co-founded e-smith, Inc. Mitel Networks, an IP telephony company based in
Ontario, Canada, acquired e-smith in 2001, and product was rebranded
"Mitel SME Server". However, Mitel subsequently discontinued
community-based development of the product in November 2003, despite a
mature and active community of volunteers inherited from e-smith. A
volunteer team coordinated by Resource Strategies released an initial free
version based on Mitel code at the beginning of 2004, but has subsequently
achieved little."
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