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Cost-conscious organizations need sophisticated mail and calendaring as much as anyone. Scalix Community Edition provides the industry's most advanced web mail client along with a rock-solid Linux email server at a price that can't be beat. Free.
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Scalix Community Edition is a free, unlimited use version of the award-winning Scalix email and calendaring platform. It includes a full version of Scalix's industrial-strength server and Scalix Web Access (SWA), a revolutionary cross-browser, cross-platform web client that delivers desktop-grade functionality never seen before in a web application. SWA, hailed as the most advanced web mail and calendaring client in the market, makes Community Edition a unique and compelling offering for any organization.
Compelling, Cost-effective Email
Community Edition raises the bar for free email by providing a robust and reliable email server that is easy to install and operate and that delivers superior email and personal calendaring. Organizations using legacy low cost or free email that are looking to move to a more modern environment with greater robustness and advanced functionality will find Community Edition a compelling, cost-effective solution. Community Edition is ideal for cost-conscious small businesses and organizations whose email users do not require fuller function groupware solutions.
Advantages Versus Older Free Email
Community Edition offers advantages in both end user functionality and email administration over alternative low cost or free email systems:
- 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 customized, extended and integrated
- Seamless upgrade path to Scalix Enterprise Edition , for advanced functionality, including native full-function Outlook support, group scheduling, public folders and advanced wireless email and PIM support
Scalix Community Edition Components
Scalix Community Edition includes the following components:
- Scalix email server, an industrial strength, highly scalable, secure and reliable platform
- Scalix Web Access with integrated personal calendaring and address book. SWA is cross-browser and cross-platform, enabling it to work in Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Firefox on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Unix 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
- Fee-based technical support from Scalix
- 25 free Scalix Enterprise Edition user licenses that allow Scalix Community Edition sites to experience the full functionality of Scalix Enterprise Edition, including full-function Outlook support , group calendaring and scheduling, public folders and advanced wireless email and PIM functionality
Community Edition is compatible with Scalix Enterprise Edition . To understand the differences between these editions and choose the edition that is right for you, click here .
System Requirements
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Hardware
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Any Intel x86 0r 64 bit-compatible machine that supports Linux
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Operating System
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One of the following versions of Linux:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES & AS 4.0 (32 bit, x86 & 64 bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 4.0 (32 bit, x86 & 64 bit)
CentOS 5 (32 bit, x86 & 64 bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 & 10 (32 bit, x86 & 64 bit)
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RAM
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512 MB (minimum)
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Disk
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100+ MB free disk space using direct attach, SAN or NAS storage architectures
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Web Server
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Apache Tomcat 5.0.x (included with Scalix Community Edition); Sun JDK 1.4.2
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Complete Documentation
Community Edition includes full online documentation, including an Installation Guide, Administrator Guide and release notes as part of the download. It includes online help for Scalix Web Access and the Scalix Administration Console , and provides Linux man pages on hundreds of administration commands.
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