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Sun Microsystems and Ximian Partner to Enhance Enterprise Communication and Collaboration
Ximian, Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc., announced the Sun[tm] ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution.
The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution provides complete integration for Sun ONE users with Linux and Solaris[tm] desktops to the popular Evolution email and calendaring workgroup information client.
This enables them to easily collaborate with Windows-based coworkers.
These users will be able to seamlessly and easily manage their email, multiple calendars, group schedules, shared calendars, address books and local task lists using existing Sun ONE servers.
According to The Radicati Group ("Messaging Total Cost of Ownership 2001, December 2001"), organizations surveyed realized a total cost of ownership of $2.
The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution provides complete integration for Sun ONE users with Linux and Solaris[tm] desktops to the popular Evolution email and calendaring workgroup information client.
This enables them to easily collaborate with Windows-based coworkers.
These users will be able to seamlessly and easily manage their email, multiple calendars, group schedules, shared calendars, address books and local task lists using existing Sun ONE servers.
According to The Radicati Group ("Messaging Total Cost of Ownership 2001, December 2001"), organizations surveyed realized a total cost of ownership of $2.
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55 per subscriber using the Sun ONE communications products, versus a total cost of ownership of $26.92 per subscriber for organizations using Microsoft Exchange.
"Ximian is committed to providing solutions in Ximian Evolution and Ximian Connector that tie islands of workers to company-wide messaging platforms," said David Patrick, president and CEO of Ximian. "We're excited to build on our long-term relationship with Sun to enable corporate customers to benefit by seamlessly supporting Linux and Solaris users in their Sun ONE environments."
"The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution removes one of the last barriers to moving to an open communications platform by making available the Sun ONE communications platform to end-user desktops," said Stephen Pelletier, vice president for network identity, communication and portal products for Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We're providing a low cost alternative to overpriced and proprietary email and calendar software that enterprises want."
Ximian Evolution[tm] is the award-winning personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX-based systems and a powerful collaboration software with broad support for popular corporate communications architectures.
The award-winning Sun ONE communications platform includes instant messaging, messaging server software with more than 220 million mailboxes sold, and calendar server software with more than 100 million seats sold.
The Sun ONE Messaging Server was recently positioned as a leader within Gartner's latest Messaging Servers Magic Quadrant ("Magic Quadrant for Messaging Servers," October 2002). Gartner's Magic Quadrant maps Gartner's assessment of the vendor's 'Breadth of Vision' against its 'Ability to Execute'.
Sun is positioned in the top right Leader quadrant.
According to Gartner, Leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution enables IT managers and system administrators to integrate desktop Solaris and Linux users of the Ximian Evolution client with the Sun ONE Calendar and Messaging Servers to support calendaring, shared address book access, task and contact management, and centralized mail storage.
Sun ONE users can define and manage email folders, propose meetings with and view free/busy time of other Sun ONE users, access personal contacts and global address lists.
Sun ONE users get an elegant interface and full functionality of Ximian Evolution, including QuickSearch, vFolders, threaded email view, in-line text editing and synchronization with Palm handhelds.
In addition to the Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution, the Sun ONE Communications products include a new synchronization tool that enables synchronization to Microsoft Outlook 98, 2000, Windows CE devices, and Palm Desktops.
The open source Ximian Evolution client uniquely integrates email, calendar, contact and task list management in one powerful, fast and easy-to-use application.
Ximian Evolution supports a broad range of Linux distributions and UNIX variants, including Solaris, Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, and more. Ximian Evolution also provides support for key data exchange and communications standards, such as IMAP, POP, SMTP, LDAP, iCalendar and more.
"Ximian is committed to providing solutions in Ximian Evolution and Ximian Connector that tie islands of workers to company-wide messaging platforms," said David Patrick, president and CEO of Ximian. "We're excited to build on our long-term relationship with Sun to enable corporate customers to benefit by seamlessly supporting Linux and Solaris users in their Sun ONE environments."
"The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution removes one of the last barriers to moving to an open communications platform by making available the Sun ONE communications platform to end-user desktops," said Stephen Pelletier, vice president for network identity, communication and portal products for Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We're providing a low cost alternative to overpriced and proprietary email and calendar software that enterprises want."
Ximian Evolution[tm] is the award-winning personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX-based systems and a powerful collaboration software with broad support for popular corporate communications architectures.
The award-winning Sun ONE communications platform includes instant messaging, messaging server software with more than 220 million mailboxes sold, and calendar server software with more than 100 million seats sold.
The Sun ONE Messaging Server was recently positioned as a leader within Gartner's latest Messaging Servers Magic Quadrant ("Magic Quadrant for Messaging Servers," October 2002). Gartner's Magic Quadrant maps Gartner's assessment of the vendor's 'Breadth of Vision' against its 'Ability to Execute'.
Sun is positioned in the top right Leader quadrant.
According to Gartner, Leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
The Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution enables IT managers and system administrators to integrate desktop Solaris and Linux users of the Ximian Evolution client with the Sun ONE Calendar and Messaging Servers to support calendaring, shared address book access, task and contact management, and centralized mail storage.
Sun ONE users can define and manage email folders, propose meetings with and view free/busy time of other Sun ONE users, access personal contacts and global address lists.
Sun ONE users get an elegant interface and full functionality of Ximian Evolution, including QuickSearch, vFolders, threaded email view, in-line text editing and synchronization with Palm handhelds.
In addition to the Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution, the Sun ONE Communications products include a new synchronization tool that enables synchronization to Microsoft Outlook 98, 2000, Windows CE devices, and Palm Desktops.
The open source Ximian Evolution client uniquely integrates email, calendar, contact and task list management in one powerful, fast and easy-to-use application.
Ximian Evolution supports a broad range of Linux distributions and UNIX variants, including Solaris, Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, and more. Ximian Evolution also provides support for key data exchange and communications standards, such as IMAP, POP, SMTP, LDAP, iCalendar and more.
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