Xandros and Scalix Team Up

Another move by Linux into the SMB space. Seems that Scalix has teamed up with Xandros to offer an integrated version of the Scalix email server product on top of the Xandros Server platform.

I haven't seen Xandros Server yet, but the Xandros Desktop is one of the few Linux distros that I recommend to complete penguin neophytes. Dead easy to setup and if you can use Windows you can pretty much use all of Xandros Desktop right away.

If Xandros Server is similarly easy, then teaming with Scalix is a smart move. Not just because they're both easy to use and cheap, but also because Scalix is what we call an "Exchange killer". Means it can act as a (mostly) full-functioned Exchange server on the back end and your users can keep right on using Microsoft Outlook on the front--they'll never know the difference unless they're using the real ragged edge of Exchange features. Scalix supports just about everything they're used to with day-to-day Exchange, including POP or IMAP email, shared contacts, shared sceduling, public folders, AJAX-based webmail and more.

No word on what the combo will cost, but it's got to be less than Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. Stay tuned.

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 20, 2006 11:10 AM