Samsung Contact was an enterprise
email
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and
groupware server that ran on
Linux
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and
HP-UX
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. It provided email, calendars and other collaborative software. It could be accessed from many different clients, most notably
Microsoft Outlook
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. It was based on
HP OpenMail, which was licensed from
Hewlett-Packard
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.
History
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California ...
announced the
end of life for its
HP OpenMail mail server
Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. In some contexts, the a ...
in 2001.
Samsung
Samsung Group (; stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in the Samsung Town office complex in Seoul. The group consists of numerous a ...
was one of the largest OpenMail customers with 250,000 users. and
OEM for the software in Asia. In November 2001
Samsung Data Systems acquired an unlimited OEM license for the software, and its
Reading, England
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-based developers, from HP.
Samsung SDS planned to make Contact, its name for OpenMail, its first enterprise product sold worldwide, and offered a temporary 90% discount in early 2002 for Contact 7.1. The company hoped to convert the five million current OpenMail users to Contact, and lure new customers using
Microsoft Exchange,
Lotus Domino, and
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed sig ...
's
iPlanet. Later in 2002, Samsung intended to launch Contact 8.0 as a
unified messaging platform including voicemail and instant messaging.
Following a major reorganization of Samsung SDS, most of the original core developers were laid off in 2003. Samsung Contact was discontinued at the end of 2007.
See also
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Scalix
Scalix is an e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux, licensed under the Scalix Public License (SPL).
The software provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It can also be access ...
References
Contact
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