| Enterprise email and IM, the Linux way |
Aug. 14, 2006
Even before this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco officially kicked off, there was already Linux business email and IM news.
First, IBM said it will be releasing its Lotus Sametime IM (instant messaging) platform, both the server and the client, for Linux.
A Java version of the Sametime client had existed before. The new native client is written in Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform). The client will be released in September, with the server to follow in 2007's first quarter.
Scalix Corp. won't let IBM get all the glory though. The email and groupware company announced the release of Scalix 11, its new Linux email, calendaring, and messaging platform for enterprises.
The latest version includes a web services platform and mobile client, enhanced management capabilities, and ongoing improvements to Scalix's Web client and Outlook support. A community preview is available for download as of today, at the company's Scalix preview site. The commercial version is scheduled to see the light of day in in November.
Scalix's leadership is also making no bones that it sees its competition as not IBM or its fellow Linux email power, OpenXchange, but Microsoft and Exchange.
The company claims that with Scalix 11, IT professionals receive Outlook-level functionality without Exchange's costs or Microsoft's license lock in, yet with improved migration, administration, and management capabilities.
Glenn Winokur, Scalix's CEO, said in a statement that "Scalix 11 introduces exciting advances in Web access, mobility and Web services architecture, while continuing to provide the best Outlook support in the market today."
He also emphasized that Scalix doesn't just run its software on Linux. The San Mateo. Calif.-based company recently embraced open-source with its new community, open-source-based server. "Linux messaging customers are looking for the best of two worlds: the product integrity of an enterprise platform with the community support of an open source project," said Winokur.
"Scalix 11 is the foundation of our recently announced open source strategy to support integration with other companies and projects. It will make
enterprise-class messaging available on the Linux-based stack of business applications, and it is available today in a community preview," Winokur
concluded.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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