Linux e-mail company wins government contracts

Scalix says the city of Bloomington, Ind., and Pottawattamie County in Iowa have purchased its products.

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June 3, 2004 2:27 p.m. PT

Scalix, a company that sells e-mail and calendar software that runs on Linux, said this week that the city of Bloomington, Ind., and Pottawattamie County in Iowa have purchased its products. The software is based on Hewlett-Packard's OpenMail technology, which Scalix licensed.

The two governments also are customers of Red Hat's Linux.