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| Scalix Launches Scalix 10 for Linux Scalix has announced Scalix 10. Scalix 10 enables organizations to achieve 99.999% email availability, perform cross-platform calendaring and scheduling, and provide enhanced rich email clients to all their users. It also simplifies email administration and strengthens the Scalix server to improve email and calendaring for medium and large organizations. Email is mission critical today and organizations have invested in costly and complex high availability solutions. Even so, email systems regularly go down. The high availability functionality of Scalix 10 provides a critical safeguard in keeping workers online and productive. It leverages leading open source and Linux clustering technology to automatically detect failed messaging services and reroute email traffic to alternate servers for 99.999% uptime. The high availability architecture supports both active/active and active/passive clustering. In contrast with other messaging solutions such as Microsoft Exchange, Scalix 10 high availability is much less complex and lower cost. The high availability functionality is free as part of Scalix Enterprise Edition. Scalix 10 addresses the growing frustration of scheduling meetings with users on multiple platforms and across organizational boundaries. Until now, there has been no easy way for users of different desktops, email clients or email systems to automatically share calendaring information and schedule meetings through their calendars. Scalix 10 enables users on a variety of platforms to be full participants in an enterprise calendaring solution. Using iCal, Scalix 10 provides cross-platform calendar interoperability, providing transparent exchange of meeting requests and responses between Scalix and email systems such as Exchange, Notes/Domino and GroupWise. Scalix's AJAX based webmail client, Scalix Web Access (SWA), continues to receive industry acclaim for its rich feature set and a user interface which so closely resembles desktop clients like Outlook that it is easy to forget you are using a browser. In fact, many Scalix customers are opting to use SWA exclusively, foregoing the cost and complexity of deploying desktop email clients altogether. With Scalix 10, the company has further enhanced SWA with an enhanced user interface, integrated address book personal distribution lists and several more functions that enable it to act as a primary email client. Scalix 10 also includes ScalixConnect for Evolution, the popular open source email and calendaring client that runs on a Linux desktop. This addresses the growing need to let Linux desktop users participate in organization-wide email, scheduling and collaboration. ScalixConnect for Evolution provides full-function access to integrated email, calendar and contact data, with full interoperability with Microsoft Outlook and SWA. Scalix 10 also enhances Scalix's robust Outlook support with digital signatures, group-by and view-by capabilities, faster advanced find and an advanced rules wizard filter. It enhances the Scalix Wireless solution by including a streamlined user interface, a multi-tasking client and background synchronization. A number of enhancements have been made to the AJAX based Scalix Administration Console in Scalix 10, such as global password management to facilitate policy enforcement and automated reporting of user mailbox size. Installation and configuration of the Scalix 10 server has also been simplified, while still allowing for command line access for advanced users. Scalix 10 now supports the ability to host multiple Scalix domains on a single server, making it attractive to service providers looking to offer a hosted solution. It provides 64-bit support for Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and SuSE Linux OSS 10 operating systems, enabling the Scalix server to take advantage of the increased memory and CPU power enabled by these systems. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |