If you are a company that's using Microsoft Exchange Serverand on the desktop, using Microsoft Outlook to connect to those exchangeservers, what if I told you that there was a technology out there that looked,smelled, felt and behaved just like Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook, butcost about two-thirds less?
Well, such a technology exists and it's called Scalix. Now,what Scalix has done and said, look, if you have an Exchange server and it costyou this much money and let's say you have another one, because it's not veryscalable and you have to spend that much money again. So if you spent all ofthis money here, they can take all of this and replace it with one Scalixserver. That's one Scalix server and the cost of it is only this. Now, this isa lot cheaper than this and that can save you a lot of money.
Now, to your Outlook clients that are connecting to thatScalix server, they never notice the difference. They think and feel as thoughthere's an Exchange server running on the network. They get all of theircalendaring information and they get all of their e-mail information just thesame way they were getting it before. No hiccups, no nothing.
Now, what does this allow you to do? Well, one of the thingsthat Scalix has done and said, "Well, we've also got a technology thatworks in the browser and it looks, feels, smells and behaves just likeOutlook." Well, what this means is that using a browser like Firefox oreven IE with no plug-ins whatsoever, they have emulated the Outlook interface.It looks and feels like Outlook. Users may not even be able to tell thedifference between a browser as opposed to being in Outlook. Now with thatbrowser, you connect directly to the Linux-based Scalix server and now you'vegot this environment where they're running Windows, using a browser andconnecting to Scalix. Well, that puts you one step away from driving your costof ownership down even more because, why, if your browser based on your e-mail,can you move to a Linux desktop, if you move to a Linux desktop, now IE doesn'trun on Linux, but Firefox does, running Firefox and you use that to connect toyour Scalix server, well, guess what? The price of this Windows desktop is thisand the price of this Linux desktop is only this, with the Firefox browser.
Now, you're only playing this and this for your entire e-mailsolution as opposed to paying this and this. And what does that mean forMicrosoft? Well, any of these existing customers on Exchange or Outlook areconsidering this solution instead, it could be game over for Exchange and Outlook.
