Linux-based messaging specialist Scalix Corp is to launch its email, calendaring, and integration software code under an open source license with the release this year of Scalix Community Edition Open Source.

The San Mateo, California-based software vendor is well known as a Linux supporter, but the code for its core eponymous email and calendaring product has until now been a closed source product. The Community Edition was originally launched in August 2005, but while that allowed for free, unlimited software use, it did not grant code access.

That will change over the coming months with the creation of the Scalix Community Edition Open Source project and the incremental release of the code for web services administration, wireless connectivity, search and indexing, and the core mail and directory server.

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