Xandros acquires Scalix

 
Xandros Acquires Scalix - Linux E-mail, Calendaring and Messaging Company
 
Combined Team to Offer Enhanced, Industrial Strength E-mail and Messaging
Alternative ¨C No Linux Expertise Required
 
NEW YORK, NY ¡ª Today Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end
Linux solutions and cross platform management tools, announced the
acquisition of Scalix, the premier award-winning Linux e-mail, calendaring
and messaging company. The acquisition represents another step in the
fulfillment of Xandros' strategic vision for developing a complete Linux
stack, including desktop, SMB and advanced enterprise servers,
cross-platform management tools, and mission-critical IT infrastructure
applications, such as e-mail, in order to provide organizations and
enterprises of all sizes with single vendor support of their diverse and
growing IT infrastructures. 
 
Scalix will continue to operate independently, as a wholly owned subsidiary
of Xandros. As such, it will have the parent company¡¯s full corporate
commitment, and access to its much larger financial and engineering
resources and significant new technologies, in order to maintain, enhance,
and develop new products in the Scalix portfolio. It will also continue to
provide full and equal support for all of Scalix¡¯s historical platforms:
Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and others. 
 
Moreover, as part of the larger Xandros company, Scalix will be able to
leverage Xandros¡¯ resources, and technologies beyond the e-mail server
level, which have proven interoperability, cross-platform management, and
advanced deployment capabilities that do not require Linux skills within the
enterprise. Scalix can also capitalize on OS-level know-how and technologies
as part of Xandros, in a way that an email-only company cannot do, in order
to extend its e-mail product capabilities and deliver unique
feature/function advantages. As a result, Scalix will provide scalable
mission critical e-mail and collaboration solutions with global 24/7 support
that can be easily deployed and administered on Red Hat, Novell, Xandros,
and other Linux platforms by Windows network administrators with no prior
Linux experience.
 
¡°This acquisition brings great advantages to Scalix customers,¡± explained
Glenn Winokur, CEO of Scalix. ¡°The expanded Xandros-Scalix engineering and
support team will provide a truly integrated messaging and calendaring
'appliance-style¡¯ product with unmatched ease of installation and
administration on both Xandros and all other supported Linux platforms. As a
complementary addition to the Xandros product line, Scalix products will
continue to be developed with the same vision and roadmap we've historically
pursued, so future versions will continue to appear as seamless upgrades.
Furthermore, customers will benefit from strengthened support and service
offerings provided through a larger combined reseller and partner network.
Finally, as a much larger company, with far greater resources, offices
around the world, and additional unique technologies, Scalix will be able to
expand and consolidate its leadership position as the premier Linux e-mail
and calendaring company.¡±
 
¡°We are excited by this acquisition as Scalix has hundreds of corporate
customers all over the world, a large following in the open source
community, and a common vision of addressing interoperability needs in
today¡¯s multi-platform environments,¡± said Andreas Typaldos, CEO of
Xandros. ¡°In bringing together developers of powerful and intuitive Linux
administration, deployment, and management tools from Xandros, with those
who created the premier Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging solution
from Scalix, we will create combined solutions that will ensure even faster
adoption in the months and years to come by enterprises looking for
Linux-based Exchange alternatives that Windows network administrators can
easily deploy, without the need for Linux knowledge or expertise.¡±
 
¡°The Scalix product will continue to be developed on all platform families
supported by Scalix today,¡± Typaldos continued. ¡°We will of course
continue to promote the Xandros-Scalix bundled Server application that we
developed with Scalix a year ago, but we will also immediately apply those
enhanced Xandros deployment and management technologies, tools, and benefits
to all of Scalix¡¯s non-Xandros platforms as well. Xandros is already
committed to having its powerful cross-platform BridgeWays management tools
support all key non-Xandros Linux distributions and platforms, and the
Scalix e-mail and calendaring product is a perfect fit for the Xandros
BridgeWays strategy.¡±
 
The current tight integration of Scalix within the Xandros Server provides
an all-in-one groupware solution that can be centrally administered through
the remote, all-graphical Xandros Management Console. The combined solution
provides business clients with scalable industrial strength world-class
e-mail and calendaring, with choice for a wide array of e-mail rich clients,
including Outlook, Thunderbird, the AJAX-based Scalix Web Access Client, as
well as various popular wireless handheld devices. At LinuxWorld, both
Xandros Server and Scalix won product excellence awards for best server and
best messaging solution respectively.
 
While Scalix is now part of the Xandros family, Scalix products will retain
their distinct product name and logo, in keeping with the brand¡¯s wide
recognition for its enterprise-class messaging and calendaring solutions
available on multiple Linux platforms.
 
 
About Xandros
Xandros, Inc. is the leading provider of award-winning, intuitive,
end-to-end Linux solutions, including desktops, SMB and enterprise servers,
and mixed-environment, cross-platform management tools. Xandros pioneered
low cost, graphical operating systems that leverage existing skill sets and
provide seamless Windows-Linux interoperability. It has since extended its
Debian-based consumer and business desktop line with SMB and enterprise
servers and management software, featuring workflow automation and ¡°single
pane of glass¡± remote deployment and administration. The company is
headquartered in New York with research and development facilities in Ottawa
and Mumbai, and sales and support offices worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.xandros.com <http://www.xandros.com/> .
 
About Scalix
Scalix is the leading Linux email, calendaring and messaging company. Scalix
allows companies to reduce the cost and complexity of messaging with a
field-proven collaboration platform based on Linux, open standards, and open
source. The Scalix products provide flexibility and freedom of choice,
helping enterprises achieve independence from vendor, technology and
licensing lock-in. With over 1 million mailboxes deployed, 140,000 Community
Edition downloads, 5,500 community forum members and 675 corporate
customers, Scalix Collaboration Platform is the most field-proven Linux
email and group calendaring solution available to enterprises. 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. <http://www.scalix.com/> 
 
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