Scalix
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Scalix is an e-mail
and groupware
server that runs on Linux
, licensed under the Scalix Public License (SPL).
Scalix provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It can be accessed from many different clients, most notably Microsoft Outlook
, Novell
Evolution (formerly Ximian
) and Scalix Web Access, an AJAX
-based web email and calendaring client that combines the functionality of desktop email with the ease-of-use of a browser.
Scalix was originally developed by Scalix Corporation, based in California
, with offices in New York
, Germany
, the United Kingdom
, Malaysia, Poland
, Brazil
and Japan
, and contract operations in India
, Russia
and the United Kingdom
. Scalix Corporation was founded by Julie Hanna in 2002, during her tenure as an Entrepreneur In Residence
(EIR) at Mayfield Fund
. She served as the company's first CEO. The company was funded by venture firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Mohr Davidow Ventures
(MDV) and Mayfield Fund. The technology was originally based on HP OpenMail, which was licensed from Hewlett Packard. In July 2007, the company was purchased by Xandros
and in July 2011 sold to Sebring Software Inc, a collaborative integration software company offering on-premises and CLOUD solutions.
Scalix includes and provides the following components as part of its offerings:
Scalix comes in several different editions: Enterprise, Small Business, Appliance, Xandros, Community, and Raw, the latter two being free software.
Xandros claims there are 250 Scalix-capable partners and affiliates, worldwide.
(MPL); the modifications have not been approved by the Open Source Initiative
. The SPL adds an appendix (exhibit b) to the MPL requiring that any products derived from Scalix source code display a "Scalix" logo that links back to the Scalix website, and a copyright notice "in the same form as the latest version of the Covered Code distributed by Scalix at the time of distribution of such copy"; see the license for details.
E-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
and groupware
Collaborative software
Collaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...
server that runs on Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, licensed under the Scalix Public License (SPL).
Scalix provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It can be accessed from many different clients, most notably Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
, Novell
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
Evolution (formerly Ximian
Ximian
Ximian was a company that provided free software desktop applications for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. Ximian was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October, 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4, 2003...
) and Scalix Web Access, an AJAX
Ajax
- Mythology :* Ajax , son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as "Ajax the Great"* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.- People :...
-based web email and calendaring client that combines the functionality of desktop email with the ease-of-use of a browser.
Scalix was originally developed by Scalix Corporation, based in California
San Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...
, with offices in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Malaysia, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, and contract operations in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Scalix Corporation was founded by Julie Hanna in 2002, during her tenure as an Entrepreneur In Residence
Entrepreneur In Residence
Entrepreneur in residence , sometimes executive in residence, is a position or title within the venture capital, law firm, and business school industries, typically held by a seasoned entrepreneur who is brought on-staff by a venture capital firm, university or other organization.The EIR role in a...
(EIR) at Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, focusing on early-stage to growth-stage investments in information technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, Internet consumer & media services, and communications....
. She served as the company's first CEO. The company was funded by venture firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies. For over 28 years, Mohr Davidow has helped to build more than 250 startup companies. The firm has $1.85B under management...
(MDV) and Mayfield Fund. The technology was originally based on HP OpenMail, which was licensed from Hewlett Packard. In July 2007, the company was purchased by Xandros
Xandros
Xandros is the name of both a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop was a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros....
and in July 2011 sold to Sebring Software Inc, a collaborative integration software company offering on-premises and CLOUD solutions.
Scalix includes and provides the following components as part of its offerings:
- Scalix email and calendar server, a full-featured messaging and collaboration server based on Linux and open source
- ScalixConnect for Outlook, robust third-party native and transparent Outlook support
- Scalix Web Access, an AJAX-based cross-browser, cross-platform email and calendaring client that combines desktop email functionality with the convenience of a browser
- Scalix ActiveSync, push email, wireless calendar and contact synchronization using the ActiveSyncActiveSyncActiveSync is a mobile data synchronization technology and protocol developed by Microsoft, originally released in 1996. There are two implementations of the technology: one which synchronizes data and information with handheld devices with a specific desktop computer , and another technology,...
protocol - ScalixConnect for Blackberry, allows full integration with BlackBerry Enterprise ServerBlackBerry Enterprise ServerBlackBerry Enterprise Server designates the middleware software package that is part of the BlackBerry wireless platform supplied by Research In Motion...
- ScalixConnect for Evolution, full-function email and calendaring client support for Linux desktop users
- Scalix Wireless Solution, advanced wireless email/PIM support for Blackberries, Treos and Smartphones
- Scalix Administration Console, AJAX-based web client for administering the Scalix server and email users
- ScalixReady for Open Source and Commercial messaging ecosystem components, which certifies that third party software works with Scalix
- MS Ecosystem Interoperability for seamless co-existence with MS Exchange and Active Directory
- Individual email level backup / restore when using SepSesam
Scalix comes in several different editions: Enterprise, Small Business, Appliance, Xandros, Community, and Raw, the latter two being free software.
Xandros claims there are 250 Scalix-capable partners and affiliates, worldwide.
Software license
The Scalix Public License is based on the Mozilla Public LicenseMozilla Public License
The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation...
(MPL); the modifications have not been approved by the Open Source Initiative
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...
. The SPL adds an appendix (exhibit b) to the MPL requiring that any products derived from Scalix source code display a "Scalix" logo that links back to the Scalix website, and a copyright notice "in the same form as the latest version of the Covered Code distributed by Scalix at the time of distribution of such copy"; see the license for details.
See also
- SOGoSogoSogo Co., Ltd. is a department store chain that operates an extensive network of branches in Japan. It once owned stores in locations as diverse as Beijing in China, Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Taipei in Taiwan, Jakarta, Medan, Bandung & Surabaya in Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Singapore,...
- Samsung ContactSamsung ContactSamsung Contact was an enterprise e-mail and groupware server that ran on Linux and HP-UX. It was based on HP OpenMail, which was licensed from Hewlett-Packard....
- Zarafa Collaboration PlatformZarafa (software)Zarafa is the name of an European open source collaborative software, developed in Delft, the Netherlands. The company that develops Zarafa, previously known as Connectux, is also called Zarafa. The Zarafa groupware provides email storage on the server side and brings its own Ajax-based mail client...
- Atmail Messaging Platform