Julie Hanna Farris knows email and calendaring. 20 years ago at Bell South, as a messaging architect within IT, she designed a distributed-computing mail system for 100,000 employees. After helping Lotus with its messaging strategy around cc:mail and Lotus Notes, as well as several startups, she founded Scalix Corp., a leading provider of Linux-based email.

Learn about the new Scalix Community Edition, a free, unlimited-use version of its Scalix Enterprise Edition, which entered the market in 2003. Learn about interoperability issues between Scalix and Microsoft Exchange, and why Farris doesn't lose sleep worrying about Microsoft. For two years in a row, Scalix has garnered Best Messaging Solution awards at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Recorded August 11, 2005 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

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Julie Hanna Farris, chief strategy officer of Scalix Corporation, founded Scalix in June 2002, during her tenure as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mayfield, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Farris was Scalix’s founding CEO, managing the company from inception to revenue stage. Farris is deeply involved in guiding the direction of the company, with a focus on product and market strategy and strategic alliances. A recognized thought leader in the messaging industry, Farris has over seventeen years of experience in building successful businesses in electronic messaging and collaboration.

Prior to Scalix, Farris was a founding executive of several companies, including onebox.com (acquired by Openwave), the industry’s first unified messaging service, 2Bridge, the pioneer in enterprise portal software, and Portola Systems (acquired by Netscape, now Sun JavaMail). Earlier in her career, Farris was a marketing executive at IBM/Lotus where she helped drive product direction and strategic marketing for the next generation Lotus cc:Mail and Lotus Notes product lines. She began her career at BellSouth, where she pioneered the design and deployment of one of the world’s largest distributed messaging and groupware environments. Farris holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Resources:

• Scalix Corporation
• Scalix Community Edition

This program is from the Opening Move series.

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