Scalix, the  provider of enterprise email and calendaring on Linux, today announced Scalix 10. Scalix 10 enables organizations to achieve 99.999% email availability, the company says, as well as perform cross-platform calendaring and scheduling, and provide enhanced rich email clients to all their users.

“More than ever, Scalix 10 is enterprise-ready,” said Glenn Winokur, Scalix Chief Executive Officer. With Scalix, customers get the best of two worlds: a solid, field-proven technology core that is highly reliable, with cutting edge innovations like a powerful AJAX web email client and cross-platform inter-organizational calendaring.”

The features of  Scalix10 are Simpler Cost-Effective High Availability, Cross-Platform Calendar and Scheduling, Enhanced Rich Email Clients, Simpler Administration and Global Policy Enforcement and Server Enhancements.

The high availability functionality of Scalix 10 provides a critical safeguard in keeping workers online and productive, Sclaix says. It leverages leading open source and Linux clustering technology to automatically detect failed messaging services and reroute email traffic to alternate servers for 99.999% uptime. The high availability architecture supports both active/active and active/passive clustering. In contrast with other messaging solutions such as Microsoft Exchange, Scalix 10 high availability is much less complex and lower cost.

Scalix 10 addresses the growing frustration of scheduling meetings with users on multiple platforms and across organizational boundaries. Until now, there has been no easy way for users of different desktops, email clients or email systems to automatically share calendaring information and schedule meetings through their calendars.

Scalix 10 enables users on a variety of platforms to be full participants in an enterprise calendaring solution. Using iCal, Scalix 10 provides cross-platform calendar interoperability, providing transparent exchange of meeting requests and responses between Scalix and email systems such as Exchange, Notes/Domino and GroupWise.