Collax Among CRN Magazine’s Emerging Vendors

Collax Among CRN Magazine’s Emerging Vendors

Directory Lists 75 “Standout, Channel-focused Vendors”

BEDFORD, Mass., November 15, 2006 – Collax, Inc., developers of the first enterprise class servers for small and growing businesses, has been named to CRN Magazine’s new Emerging Vendors Directory for 2006.

“CRN’s Emerging Vendors captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants,” reports the magazine in its October 30, 2006 issue (www.crn.com/sections/special/emergingvendors/index.jhtml).

“The channel is a vital part of our business,” said Paula Hunter, vice president of Collax. “With Ingram as our first distributor, we are actively seeking more relationships with solution providers looking for an alternative to Microsoft.”

The company’s flagship software product, Collax Business Server, delivers a suite of open source applications to help run a small or growing business, including security, networking, and communication, with no Linux knowledge required. Collax was founded in early 2005 and since has received series A funding from Atlas Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Wellington Partners.

About CRN
CRN provides Solution Providers and Technology Integrators with the crucial information and analysis they need to drive their company’s sales. As an advocate for and voice of the Channel, Solution Providers turn to CRN first for immediate information. With more than 20 years of experience, CRN is the most trusted source for 117,000 channel professionals. CRN can be found on the Web at www.crn.com

Collax Product Portfolio
Collax develops and markets server solutions for security, networking, and communication, integrated with an easy-to-use GUI (graphical user interface) for installation, updates and maintenance. All Collax server solutions can be easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure. The current offering includes:

Collax Business Server is a Linux-based server solution, which offers security, networking and communication functions and requires no Linux know-how. It is available as a free software license for up to five non-commercial users, as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance, and can scale for use in small to medium-sized businesses and distributed branch offices of large enterprises.

Collax Security Gateway is a Unified Threat Management solution providing Web, email and network security with features such as antivirus, IDS, IPS, anti-spam, firewall, VPN, Web content filtering, and networking features – traffic management and multi-WAN – all integrated in a single management platform. Available either as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance including software, the gateway is easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure.

Collax Open-Xchange Server is a collaboration suite, which offers tools to facilitate communication for personal information management as well as efficient team collaboration – whether project management, customer care or internal workflows. The server is available as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance.

Collax Appliances are pre-installed, turn-key solutions that combine software and hardware to provide ease of use with no Linux knowledge required. Depending on a company’s size and intended level of use, a Collax appliance will be configured for maximum benefit.

About Collax, Inc. – Simply Linux
With more than 8,000 installations worldwide, Collax delivers turn-key, Linux-based server solutions to help run a business. The solutions contain a suite of best of breed open source applications for security, networking and communication. Also available pre-loaded on hardware, the server software can be used with any Windows, Mac or Linux client devices and requires no customer administration. SMBs or departments of larger enterprises realize Linux functionality, scalability, security and rapid innovation without learning a new operating system.

Collax is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Munich and Freiburg, Germany and its investors include Atlas Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Wellington Partners. For more information, visit www.collax.com.

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