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ZDNet: Scalix Potentially a Serious Contender to Exchange

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 1, 2005

“After reading David Berlind’s blog and listening to his podcast
about a potential contender to Microsoft Exchange server, Scalix
sounded almost too good to be true. As someone who’s overseen and
designed many Microsoft Exchange installations with hundreds or
thousands of users, I have always been haunted by several issues
related to any Exchange contender. My skepticism prompted me to
post a follow-up blog in which I asked some hard hitting questions
and this talk-back to David’s original blog. Since that time, Julie
Farris (founder of Scalix) replied to my blog with some very
impressive responses that showed Scalix was indeed a serious
contender and not like some other pretenders of the past few years
(hint: A guy named Larry…)”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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