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Xandros Acquires Scalix -- Linux E-mail, Calendaring and Messaging Company
Combined Team to Offer Enhanced, Industrial Strength E-mail and Messaging Alternative -- No Linux Expertise Required
| Source: Xandros, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 18, 2007) - 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.
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.
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