CustomTech and Samsung team to deliver a proven alternative to Exchange
messaging for Linux and UNIX servers
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CustomTech and Samsung team to deliver a proven alternative to Exchange
messaging for Linux and UNIX servers
CustomTech is now distributing Samsung Contact, the proven HP OpenMail-
based alternative to Microsoft Exchange messaging server for Linux and
UNIX platforms.
SYDNEY, Australia, and READING, England -- 28 August 2002 -- Custom
Technology and Samsung SDS today announced their distribution
partnership to bring Samsung Contact to the Australian market.
"Custom Technology is pleased to be working with Samsung SDS to deliver
Samsung Contact to the Australian market", said Gordon Hubbard, Managing
Director, Custom Technology. "CustomTech has played a pioneering role in
promoting business focused Linux products in the Australian market and
we see Samsung Contact as being the catalyst for many businesses to migrate
away from Microsoft Exchange onto low cost Linux and UNIX platforms".
"We are excited to be working with a proven partner such as CustomTech,"
said Richi Jennings, Chief Architect of Samsung Contact. "Small and
medium enterprise customers definitely need the type of solutions focus
and tailored support that CustomTech provide. CustomTech's long-term
focus on low ownership costs, robustness, and customer freedom fit very
well with our way of thinking. Samsung Contact provides all of these
attributes, by design."
"We look forward to supporting HP's existing OpenMail® customers to
ensure a smooth transition to Samsung Contact", said Hubbard. HP's
OpenMail® technology was chosen for the core of Samsung Contact because
of its reputation as the most reliable and scalable email product
available. The highly successful email server was used by more than 60%
of Fortune 1000 companies, currently with some 5 million active users
world-wide. Samsung has a robust plan under way to extend the offering
into a powerful, seamless unified communications tool -- based around a
truly unified message store -- enabling any message to be sent and
picked up via any device: phone, fax, desktop computer, the web, or a range
of wireless devices. Research and development are key priorities for
Samsung, with investment in Samsung Contact more than doubling that
previously provided by HP. This investment is headed up through a newly
established unified communications business unit, tasked with building
Samsung Contact into a world market leader.
Samsung Contact Server supports the Microsoft Outlook® desktop client -
including collaboration features, such as calendaring, scheduling,
delegation and offline synchronisation - and the native Samsung Contact
Client which provides Outlook-like features at lower cost and
complexity.
The new Samsung Contact web clients also allow remote access from
internet cafes and wireless handhelds.
Samsung Contact Server runs on HP-UX, IBM AIX, Solaris and Linux. The
native Samsung Contact Client runs on Windows, Linux and the Samsung
Contact Server for web access.
Availability
Custom Technology is shipping Samsung Contact now. A FREE trial CD is
available that allows unlimited users for a 30 day trial period and also
includes a FREE ongoing 5 user server license.
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About Custom Technology Australia
Custom Technology Australia Pty Ltd provides value added product
distribution, technical support, integration and development services
for Open Systems including Linux and UNIX. Our vision is to deliver Open
Systems that provide real competitive advantage to our business
partners.
Visit Custom Technology at http://www.customtech.com.au
About Samsung Contact
Samsung Contact is an email server product, offering the lowest total
cost of ownership, extreme scalability and solid reliability to email
desktop clients. Amongst the clients supported is Microsoft Outlook,
including the "collaboration" features (such as shared calendars,
delegation and offline folders) which are otherwise only accessible when
using a Microsoft server. Customers can easily migrate to Samsung
Contact from leading email products such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus
Domino and OpenMail. The product has been developed following Samsung's win
of perpetual licensing rights over Hewlett-Packard's highly successful
OpenMail technology. Investment and commitment to the roadmap will
continue to build on the success of OpenMail, and expectations are that
Samsung Contact will become the market leader in the field of seamless
unified communications. Future development will also encompass
technologies such as J2EE and XML. For more information, please visit
their website at http://www.samsungcontact.com.
About Samsung SDS
Samsung SDS Korea, led by CEO Mr Hong Ki Kim, delivers packaged
solutions, professional services, global marketing and Internet-focused
services and solutions. The company is the leading systems integration,
systems management and e-business company in Korea, employing 6,500
people worldwide and generating $1.3 billion (US) in revenues. It has
been ranked 38th in Software 500, a survey of software companies around
the world by a globally recognised software magazine. For more
information, please visit their website at http://www.sds.samsung.com.
Press Contact
Gordon Hubbard
Managing Director
gordon@customtech.com.au
Tel: 02 9659 9590
Fax: 02 9659 9510
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