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Scalix To Open Source E-Mail

Posted by dcparris on · 3 comments
InformationWeek; By Barbara Darrow 		Mail this story
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Scalix will offer up a good chunk of its next e-mail release to the open source world, the company said Wednesday. Components of Scalix Community Edition will be available under a license modeled on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). That will enable the legal use of third-party code not licensed under the MPL to coexist with commercial code. A commercial license will also be available for the Scalix enterprise product.

While this is not the first company to open source a software package, but now we're seeing a market battle centered around Free/Open Source Software

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Comments (3)

tuxchick2 ·
Let me count the ways:

Postfix Exim Qmail Send(shudder)mail Squirrelmail Cyrus Courier OpenXchange

And bales of other similar apps, and all kinds of groupware suites maturing nicely. Why bother with a closed proprietary email or groupware server, even if it does open up little bits of itself? whyyyyy?
dcparris Story submitter ·
C'mon Tuxchick! You know how people are just falling all over themselves to give up money and freedom both for the privilege of sending love notes to each other.
herzeleid ·
More choices is always good -

Now if scalix is really open source now, maybe someone will soon figure out how to rip sendmail out of that big monolithic contraption and replace it with postfix....

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