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Scalix and ProxyIT Partner to Bring Hosted Exchange Alternative to San Francisco Bay Area
Scalix Hosted Email and Group Calendaring Enables ProxyIT to Deliver Rich, Low-cost Outlook Experience to SMB Customers
| Source: Scalix, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - February 19, 2009) - Scalix, the
award-winning Linux email, group calendaring, and messaging company, today
partnered with ProxyIT to bring premium hosted email services to small and
medium Business (SMB) customers in the Bay Area. The Scalix open messaging
solution provides native support for Microsoft Outlook including full
email, group calendaring, contacts, and task support. It also offers a
full-featured, AJAX-based Scalix Web Access client, and support for a wide
range of wireless devices, to satisfy the diversity of needs among
ProxyIT's customers.
"Many of our customers have become overwhelmed by the resource requirements
of managing their email systems, as their needs have grown to include
collaboration, security, archiving and mobility," said John Bosch, CEO of
ProxyIT. "Our high availability hosted Scalix system delivers enterprise
class email messaging and collaboration tools to our clients at a fraction
of the in-house cost, and enables them to cut administrative overhead to
achieve a higher ROI on their IT resources."
"The hosted email market is set to explode over the next 12 months. Scalix
Software-as-a-Service is a win-win solution, where end users cut costs and
focus on their core business, while our hosting partners enjoy solid
margins and recurring revenue," said Dirk Vanderwal, VP Sales for Scalix.
"We are excited to partner with ProxyIT, as they have the vision to go
beyond immediate user requirements to deliver a rich messaging experience
that anticipates future needs."
About ProxyIT
ProxyIT Inc., headquartered in the San Francisco bay area, is a nationwide
provider of outsourced IT services specializing in Managed Services,
Corporate Information Systems and production infrastructures for Internet
Enabled businesses. ProxyIT's data centers in five US locations provide
SAS-70 compliant environments and first tier network connectivity in order
to free businesses from in-house maintenance of these sophisticated
services. ProxyIT services range from turnkey systems support for start-up
businesses to service level support and governance compliance for
established companies. For more information call: 1-877-PROXYIT
(877-776-9948) or email info@proxyit.com.
About Scalix
Scalix delivers premier e-mail, calendaring and messaging, reducing the
cost and complexity of messaging and fostering freedom of choice with
products based on open standards and open source. Scalix is the most
field-proven Linux-based enterprise collaboration platform available today,
with over one million mailboxes deployed, 140,000 Community Edition
downloads, 5,500 community forum members and over one thousand corporate
customers. Owned by Xandros, Scalix is headquartered in New York with
research and development facilities in Ottawa, Europe, and Mumbai, and
sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, please visit
www.scalix.com.
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