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 Email and Shared Calendar for Linux
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Scalix Overview and Features
- Simple to manage, highly reliable, feature-rich
- Enables customers to create a robust and scalable environment
- Scales up to support organizations with hundreds of thousands of users
- Scales down for offices with fewer than one hundred users
- Supports virtually any email client and device, without loss of functionality or data integrity
- Full-function support for popular clients like Microsoft Outlook
- Mozilla Thunderbird & Eudora, as well as the broad range of POP or IMAP clients are all supported
- Uses a single wireless management infrastructure to integrate Scalix email and PIM data with wireless devices
- Enterprise calendaring and scheduling with real-time free/busy lookup
- Contact and task management
- Public folders
- Rich text formatting
- Offline folder synchronization
- Secure delegate access to calendar and email
- Scalix’s customers report a 30-70% reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their email environment
- Scalix Web Access offers the most powerful webmail user experience available today. Supports Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers on Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. It is a revolutionary cross-browser, cross-platform web client that delivers desktop-grade functionality never seen before in a web application.
Scalix Editions
Enterprise Edition
Enterprise Edition is ideal for organizations that demand the full range of functionality in a commercial email and calendaring system. It includes multi-server support, unlimited number of Standard Users, any number of Premium Users, the full complement of Scalix advanced capabilities, and a wide variety of technical support options.
Includes Scalix Connect for Evolution providing robust support for Evolution's email, calendaring, scheduling and contacts, Linux desktop users get advanced email capabilities.
Scalix Wireless Solution offers rich wireless email, calendar, address book and Personal Information Management (PIM) functionality while providing broad choice in wireless carriers and devices.
Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, and the open source OpenLDAP directory to provide capabilities ranging from address look-up, directory synchronization, authentication and single sign-on. It is compatible with leading proprietary and open source IT ecosystem components such as anti-virus, anti-spam, archiving, backup and system monitoring.
Moving to the Scalix platform is a transparent experience for end users with Scalix’s zero-downtime migration tools and processes. Users always have access to email, even during the migration process.
Standard users do not have the requirements of higher-end groupware and collaboration software.
Small Business Edition
Small Business Edition is a low-cost version of the Enterprise Edition designed to meet the needs of small businesses. It offers many of the same features found in the Enterprise Edition but at a price point that is more attractive for small
It differs from Enterprise Edition only in that it is a single server version of Scalix and it does not include other features typically required in larger businesses, such as support for 99.999% availability.
You can upgrade from the Community Edition which will provide these additional capabilities...
- Either a 20 or 50 premium user license is available that provides full-function Outlook support with group scheduling.
- Additional premium users can be added wiht 10 to 25 packs
- Exchange co-existence
- Ability to use the Scalix Wireless Solution and automated migration tools
- One year software subscription
- Installation suppor
Community Edition
Community Edition is a free, single-server, unlimited-use version. It is great for cost-conscious organizations that desire a modern email and calendaring system but do not require advanced groupware and collaboration functionality for their user population.
Includes...
- Unlimited Standard Users
- 25 free premium user licenses for experiencing the full functionality of Scalix, including native Outlook and robust Evolution support, group calendaring and scheduling, and public folders for sharing and collaborating on documents, calendars and contacts
- Subset of Scalix functionality and incident-based technical support
- Scalix email server, an industrial strength, highly scalable, secure and reliable platform
- Scalix Web Access with integrated personal calendaring and address book. Cross-browser and cross-platform, enabling it to work in Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Firefox on Windows, Linux and Macintosh desktops
- Support for POP/IMAP email clients
- GUI installation wizard and web-based administration console
- Powerful scripting environment and full Linux command line access
- Complete documentation
- Community support through the Scalix Community Forum
Features...
- Quality and robustness of a field-proven, commercial grade email platform that offers superior reliability, scalability and security
- Industry’s most advanced web mail client with desktop grade functionality previously only available through proprietary desktop mail clients like MS Outlook or Outlook Express
- Ease of installation and administration
- Flexible, open architecture that can be customized, extended and integrated
- Seamless upgrade path to Scalix Enterprise or Small Business Edition, for advanced functionality, including native full-function Outlook support, group scheduling, public folders and advanced wireless email and PIM support
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Scalix Clients of Choice Architecture
Any Client, Any Device. Anywhere, Anytime.
Scalix offers maximum choice and flexibility in client desktops and mail interfaces, allowing customers to preserve their investment in end user training and experience with email clients they use today.
Scalix provides full-function, transparent support for...
- Microsoft Outlook 2003, XP, and 2000
- Novell Evolution
- Web access through Internet Explorer, Firefox or Mozilla browsers
- Wireless access through BlackBerry, Treo and Windows Mobile devices
- Any POP and IMAP clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora and Outlook Express
Scalix natively and transparently supports each mail client’s feature set, user interface and communications protocol, ensuring no end user disruption or retraining. Customers can reap the benefits of running their email infrastructure on a Linux mailserver, while preserving maximum choice and flexibility with Windows, Linux, UNIX or Macintosh on end user desktops. End users also have the flexibility to alternate between using different email clients, while preserving full-function and synchronized access to their email, calendar, contacts and shared folder data.
Scalix Web Access (SWA)
Scalix Web Access is a new generation power web client that offers the usability, functionality, look and feel and performance of desktop email and calendaring clients like Outlook. Scalix Web Access offers rich interoperability with Microsoft Outlook and Evolution, enabling users to work interchangeably between the two interfaces for a fully synchronized view of their mail, calendar and contact data.
Web-based email provides the advantage of anywhere, anytime access through a browser. But the current generation of web email clients are used infrequently because of slow performance and limited functionality that significantly affect productivity. Scalix Web Access is different. A high-performance web email and calendaring client, Scalix Web Access represents a significant leap forward for web-based email access.
Scalix Web Access brings popular and familiar desktop application features including a three-pane user interface, pull-down menus, tool tips and drag-and-drop capabilities to the browser for web email access. Users can drag-and-drop messages, meeting appointments and contacts in exactly the same way they can in their desktop mail client today. Users familiar with Microsoft Outlook will be productive with Scalix Web Access without training.
High performance is enabled by Scalix Web Access’ unique caching architecture. By performing most client activities including composing, reading, deleting, filing and sorting messages from an in-memory cache, Scalix Web Access reduces expensive server-side processing and significant network traffic common with page-oriented web email clients. The result is a highly responsive web email and calendaring experience, even when using low bandwidth network connections.
Scalix Web Access offers rich interoperability with Microsoft Outlook and Novell (Ximian) Evolution, enabling users to work interchangeably between the two interfaces for a fully synchronized view of their mail, calendar and contact data. Scalix Web Access runs on a broad range of desktop platforms, including Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac, giving customers the flexibility to use Internet Explorer or the Mozilla Browser to access email, calendar and contacts.
Scalix Web Access utilizes the latest standards-based technologies, including DHTML, XML, and SOAP, to achieve the performance, look-and-feel and functionality of a modern desktop application. No Java or browser plug-ins are required to provide snappy performance typically only associated with desktop applications.
Scalix Connect for Outlook
Scalix offers the industry’s richest third party support for Microsoft Outlook, achieving full-function, transparent compatibility through native MAPI support. Outlook users can run in “Corporate Workgroup” mode enabling them access to the full range of advanced email functionality offered. No end user retraining is required when Outlook users move to Scalix.
A sample of advanced Outlook features include:
- Integrated email, calendar, and directory services
- Rich Text Format (RTF) message formatting
- Offline folder synchronization
- Free/Busy directory lookup for group scheduling
- Client- and server-based rules
- Delegates for mail and calendar
- Public folders
- Folder management, storage and sorting
- Public distribution lists
- Message properties: sensitivity, priority, expire by, flags, etc.
- Tasks and task delegation
- Full Outlook address book & contacts
- Auto-preview of messages
- Event-driven notifications (e. g. new mail arrival)
- Outlook categories
- Mail views
- The Exchange permissions model
- Direct resource booking
- Voting buttons
Scalix Connect for Evolution
Scalix Connect for Evolution provides full-function connectivity between Novell Evolution and the Scalix Server. Compatible with Evolution 2.4.x, Scalix Connect natively supports IMAP and iCal resulting in compatibility with the full range of functionality offered by Evolution. No end user retraining is required when Evolution users move to Scalix.
Scalix Wireless Solution
The Scalix Wireless Solution gives users rich wireless email, calendar, address book and Personal Information Management (PIM) functionality while providing broad choice in wireless carriers and devices. By using a single wireless management infrastructure to integrate Scalix email and PIM data with wireless devices, the Scalix Wireless Solution reduces the cost and complexity associated with providing wireless email to enterprise users.
The Scalix solution supports all leading wireless devices, including all BlackBerry, all wireless PalmOS devices including the Treo, and a variety of Windows Mobile PDAs such as the HP iPAQ and Smartphones from companies such as Samsung and Motorola. The solution is compatible with popular wireless network offerings from major carriers including Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and others. In addition to supporting the leading wireless carriers named above, it also supports any Palm or Windows Mobile PDA s over 802.11x networks.
Device, carrier and network choice is a significant advancement for enterprise wireless infrastructure, giving IT greater flexibility in supporting user requirements. A web-based console simplifies administration by consolidating tasks including server administration, as well as device and user provisioning.
It provides wireless access and synchronization with all Scalix mailbox information, including emails, calendar, contacts and tasks. Scalix Wireless users can read, compose, reply, forward and delete emails; view and edit attachments; maintain calendar and contacts; schedule meetings, accept or decline meeting requests; and schedule automated wireless data synchronization; Robust filtering gives users precise control over the email and PIM data that synchronizes with their wireless device.
The Scalix Wireless Solution offers end-to-end security with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)/Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connectivity. All organizational data is stored behind the customer firewall. Data is transmitted directly to wireless devices without passing through intermediate data repositories.
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Server
Manageable. Reliable. Scalable. Secure.
Scalix’s technology heritage is derived from HP OpenMail, which the company has licensed from Hewlett Packard. Over the past decade, this field-proven email server technology has been deployed by some of the world’s largest and most demanding enterprises supporting 100,000’s of users while reporting system availability above 99.99%.
Use Scalix Server to consolidate dozens or even hundreds of workgroup servers down to a few low cost Linux enterprise email servers. Replace distributed system complexity, redundant hardware and high labor overhead with a streamlined centrally managed messaging solution. The Scalix Server also “scales down” to provide reliable and cost-effective Linux email and calendaring services to small business offices with fewer than one hundred users.
Scalix has embraced open, dominant and de facto industry standards for messaging, enterprise email servers, Web Services and the Internet. Supported standards include: SMTP, MIME, MAPI, POP, IMAP, HTTP, SSL, LDAP, XML and SOAP. Standards support ensures comprehensive messaging compatibility, coexistence in multi-vendor environments and non-proprietary integration with other applications and services.
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Administration
Scalix has developed a Web Services-based management platform that offers a unified, secure and extensible framework for anytime, anywhere administrative access and management of a distributed email environment. The Scalix Administration Console combined with a powerful scripting environment, help to automate and streamline the full range of repetitive tasks that can bog down valuable time of email administrators.
The Scalix Administration Console combines the power of an intuitive, graphical desktop interface with the anytime, anywhere convenience of a web browser. Based on Dynamic HTML, XML and SOAP, the Scalix Administration Console allows email administrators to become quickly productive managing users, groups, distribution lists, server processes, message queues and default settings with little training.
Role-based administration capabilities allow secure delegation of administrative tasks to helpdesk technicians or individuals with limited-scope administration rights. The Scalix Administration Console is a perfect complement to the command line and scripting interfaces that provide maximum power and flexibility in managing the Scalix environment.
Scalix also provides robust capabilities for monitoring system status and automating bulk and routine activities. Comprehensive multi-level activity and error logs facilitate troubleshooting.
Scalix offers maximum choice and flexibility for user and directory management. Customers can choose to administer and manage user information entirely within the Scalix environment. Alternatively, organizations that have deployed a corporate directory framework such as Microsoft Active Directory, eDirectory or any LDAP-compatible corporate directory can continue to leverage this infrastructure when working with Scalix.
Scalix minimizes directory management overhead through tight integration with corporate directories. This enables centralized directory administration, where changes and updates automatically propagated throughout the Scalix environment. Scalix also works with external directories for single sign on, user authentication, and password management.
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