) March 27, 2009 -- Unison™ unified communications, the world's first free enterprise software, has been listed in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Unified Communications, 2009" report (March 12, 2009). In the research, designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative unified communications vendors, products and services, Gartner recommends that small businesses review Unison's portfolio when researching unified communications.

) December 16, 2008 -- Unison™ unified communications, the world's first free enterprise software, now supports Cisco and Digium SIP gateways, allowing any SMB to deploy unified communications at minimal cost by keeping its existing phone lines and numbers. As well as minimizing expenses due to major IT changes, Unison's compatibility with popular gateways also gives companies the ability to keep their traditional 'POTS' telephone lines if they do not wish to switch to VoIP for external telephone calls.

) January 6, 2009 -- Unison™ unified communications, the world's first free enterprise software, has been named one of the ten best products of 2008 by eWeek Channel Insider, a leading publication for the IT channel. Selected by Senior Technology Editor Frank Ohlhorst, the products were judged in terms of innovation, up-sell opportunities for the channel, value-added service opportunities and market potential.

) April 28, 2009 -- Unison Technologies, a leader in unified communications software for business, today announced the launch of its Unison Business Technology Advancement Program for New York metropolitan area organizations. Unison is offering a free unified telephony, email and instant messaging system to small and medium businesses and organizations in the New York area.

) December 9, 2008 -- Unison™, the only fully-unified communications software, is now available free of charge as the world's first sponsor-supported enterprise application. This move gives millions of SMBs worldwide an exciting zero-cost alternative to high-cost solutions like Microsoft Exchange or simplistic hosted offerings such as Google Apps.

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With sponsor-supported Unison now available, any organization can download the Linux and Windows-based software at www.unison.com, then deploy it without needing to buy licenses. Unison is:

) October 28, 2008 -- Unison Technologies today announced the first fully-unified communications software offering for schools and colleges. Unison, the unified communications software, will be available with substantial discounts for educational establishments, making it affordable even on tight budgets. More information about the offering is available at http://www.unison.com/education.

) February 2, 2009 -- Unison™ unified communications, the world's first free enterprise software, announced the first fully-unified communications solution which can deploy e-mail and telephony instantly on a virtual server. With the launch of Unison for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the leading OS-level virtualization solution, any SMB or hosting provider can move immediately to unified communications.

) February 24, 2010 -- New York: Unison™ unified communications, the leading unified communications software, is now available as a ‘cloud’ or SaaS service through a partnership with Intermedia, a leader in business communications hosting. The new partnership will allow small and mid-sized businesses to get unified communications – including email, telephony, voicemail, instant messaging, real-time free/busy status of colleagues and more – as a simple package, managed by Intermedia, with a simple monthly bill.

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) November 19, 2008 -- Ferris Research today announced the results of the first study examining the costs of Microsoft's unified communications (UC) offering, concluding that costs for small businesses can run as high as $180 per user per month and that these companies "risk a lack of return on the investment" due to these costs. The white paper, sponsored by Unison Technologies is available at www.unison.com/ferris.

) March 6, 2009 -- UNISON LLC founder and president Larry Cerri knows that his company's UNISON The Collaborative Meetings Experience provides tremendous value to company offsite sales and corporate meetings, but the real test of its value has come of late.

The meetings industry overall has taken a hit from the economic crisis, coupled with the highly publicized backlash of corporate meetings, especially those by Troubled Asset Relief Program funded financial institutions. The meetings industry is feeling the pain as more and more companies cut back their offsite meetings and some are cancelling meetings altogether.

This week Coggno teamed up with Rapid Intake Unison to provide course developers Flash-based course creation.

) October 15, 2009 -- Rapid Intake, a collaborative rapid e-learning software company, based in Provo, Utah, has announced a nation-wide academic grant program for K-12 and higher-education institutions.

) October 6, 2008 -- Just log in through any browser and create interactive Flash-based courses online -- it's that easy. Do it as an individual, or collaboratively work as teams. That's the promise of the Rapid Intake (www.rapidintake.com) technology that recently won one of the e-learning industry's most prestigious awards.

Rapid Intake is supplying their award-winning, web-based e-learning software, Unison, to two hundred schools for the purpose of creating online learning courses.

) December 11, 2008 -- Comodo, a leading Internet trust and security company, today announced the availability of three (3) year term Unified Communications (UC) Certificates. These digital certificates support Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server 2007 networks, and provide high visibility, recognition and security for unified communications and business email services.

) December 9, 2008 -- Yugma (http://www.yugma.com), the leading web conferencing service that lets people connect and collaborate instantly using the Internet, announced the immediate availability of its Linux (beta) version.

The key features of the Linux (beta) version

Now Linux users can instantly host a meeting, as well as join an online meeting when using the Linux (beta) version of Yugma.

) August 11, 2009 -- Apptix (OSE: APP), the industry-leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange email, Microsoft SharePoint collaboration services, and VoIP phone services for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today announced it has extended the Secure Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence capabilities of its hosted Microsoft® Office Communicator service to mobile devices.

) November 2, 2009 -- Esna Technologies Inc. (Esnatech) today announced it has added Skype™ VoIP/Video support to its market leading unified communication desktop software, UC Link. As part of its ongoing goal for interoperability and Rich communication and collaboration tools, Esnatech has integrated its UC Link desktop software with Skype™ VoIP and Video services for enhanced real-time communication services. Users of the Esnatech Telephony Office-LinX UC platform will have their live Skype™ VoIP & Video status tied into existing office infrastructure and applications so other users can see if they are available or not, on their office telephone, or off the network. It will bridge the Skype™ VoIP/Video world with Enterprise telephony and Groupware status.

) April 14, 2009 -- Esna Technologies Inc. (Esnatech), a market leader in enterprise unified communications, has launched a version of their market leading mobile unified communication software for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices. The Mobile UC software, Mobile UC Client delivers fixed to mobile convergence for a wide range of wireless devices with enterprise PBX systems such as Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, Nortel, Iwatsu, AASTRA, 3COM, Asterisk, etc.) . It provides a complete communications and& collaboration solution for mobile users,; integrating presence, messaging, mobility and computer telephony to users over their mobile devices.

Latest Ubuntu News : Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition puts the user at the heart of its new design.

AUSTIN, TX - Virtual Bridges, a leading provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced today the release of a major upgrade to its award-winning Win4Lin Desktop product and a specially priced edition for Ubuntu users.

) December 11, 2008 -- Yugma, the leading web conferencing service that lets people connect and collaborate instantly using the Internet, announced the immediate availability of its new Version 4.0 service.

The key features of the new version 4.0 include:

-   New Yugma Viewer (Java or Windows versions available, no Yugma download required)
-   New Linux Beta version allows Linux users to Host a Meeting and share their desktop
-   New standardized Download and Installation process
-   Improved Annotation tools for Yugma Pro users
-   New Microsoft Outlook plug-in for all Yugma users
-   Improved registration process for all Yugma users

) November 2, 2009 -- Bomgar, maker of appliance-based remote support software, announced this week a significant expansion of its already-broad Linux support. Bomgar is expanding its Linux capability to better address the needs of IT systems administrators and end users during a Linux remote support session. Bomgar 10.4, generally available November 16, 2009, extends platform support to enable technicians to run Bomgar from an Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

) September 1, 2009 -- DotNetPanel, a leading Windows hosting control panel developer, announced today its new Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 module, designed exclusively for hosting companies and Internet service providers that want to offer instant messaging, conferencing, and Enterprise voice for businesses around the world.

New offerings to individuals and small businesses to ease transition to fastest growing Linux desktop.

) October 3, 2008 -- Esna Technologies Inc. (Esnatech) announced today it has added support for Broadsoft BroadWorks VoIP platform to its Telephony Office-LinX Unified Communication platform. Broadsoft BroadWorks is the industry's leading VoIP application platform and provides revenue-generating voice features for fixed-line and wireless service providers. BroadWorks offers the widest array of applications from a single platform, including Hosted PBX, Mobile PBX, Business Trunking, IP Centrex, and Residential Broadband. BroadWorks delivers these applications with carrier-grade interoperability, back office capabilities, redundancy, and scalability.

Mobile UC

Built for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007, 3-year Unified Communications Certificates reduce certificate cost and administrative overhead.

) September 29, 2009 -- DTM Systems Corporation has achieved Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Certification. Debuting just one year after the Microsoft Unified Communications launch, the R2 update continues to deliver on the Microsoft promise to streamline communications for users, giving organizations the flexibility and control they need, and provide an extensible communications platform.

TARRYTOWN, NY - Open-Xchange Inc. today announced the availability of an updated and extended evaluation version for its "Out of the Box" email and collaboration solution, Open-Xchange Express Edition. Evaluators get a free License Key that ensures updates and fixes through February 29, 2008.
Launched in July 2007, Open-Xchange Express Edition is full featured collaboration software designed to improve communication and teamwork in small businesses. The product does not require a licensed operating system or any other software prior to installation. Open-Xchange Express Edition transforms a bare metal computer or a virtual machine into a fully-functional email and groupware server integrating the increasingly popular Ubuntu operating system.

New partnership announced between The Linux Box and software developer Canonical Ltd.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Scalix, the open source e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux. Written by a renowned Linux author Markus Feilner, this book teaches users to install, configure and administer the Scalix Collaboration Platform.
Scalix: Linux Administrator's Guide will help users to set up, implement, and manage both the free open-source Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition of Scalix Collaboration Platform one of the most widely used groupware servers for email, group calendaring, and messaging on Linux.
Scalix can be used very easily by beginners; however, strategies and administrative tasks are difficult to learn and this book will help users to master them all.

) November 25, 2008 -- R1Soft®, developer of Continuous Data Protection®, today announced the release of its long-awaited free beta version of Hot Copy for Linux, a new command line utility that takes instant, readable and writable snapshots of disks or volumes on any Linux server, providing an unprecedented level of flexibility for IT administrators.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a preview to the new version of Open-Xchange Server Edition, which facilitates effective teamwork and enables document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.
Open-Xchange offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks and document sharing to provide companies with all the tools needed to facilitate communication and efficient teamwork. Customers can improve communication and teamwork with simple, intuitive tools and intelligent features, such as smart links between calendar appointments, task lists, contacts, documents, bookmarks and knowledge articles.
Unique features of Open-Xchange Server Edition include:

) July 16, 2009 -- OffiSync, a software company focused on extending Microsoft Office with Google's™ cloud services, today announced the availability of its latest version that delivers on the vision of Software plus Service for all Microsoft Office versions. OffiSync enables Microsoft Office users to store and organize their documents and collaborate in real time through Google Docs™, and improve enterprise document management through Google Sites™.

OffiSync in PowerPoint 2007

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) June 24, 2009 -- Today, Enabling Technologies proudly announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in Unified Communications Solutions, Instant Messaging and Presence. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. LinMin, provider of the award-winning LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning solution, today unveiled Release 5.2, featuring a new Application Programming Interface (API), single-command installation, numerous feature enhancements and support for the provisioning and imaging of additional platforms. The API is designed to allow customers and partners to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning into environments that presently cannot do bare metal provisioning of Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines.

) April 30, 2009 -- IGEL Technology, the world's third largest thin client vendor (2008 by revenue, IDC), today introduced a virtualized version of its new Universal Desktop Linux-based firmware, which provides organizations with a no cost and risk-free way to evaluate the look and feel of IGEL's Universal Desktops. IGEL's virtualized thin client will include a full firmware version of IGEL's advanced pack -- with the exception of the Ericom PowerTerm Terminal emulation offering -- and organizations will have the ability to evaluate the product on a PC or notebook test system.

With over 70 Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Implementations completed- Enabling Technologies is using their past experience to provide innovative and expert deployments of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2). Our Telephony experience with integration to all types of Telephony platforms has made Enabling capable of providing an end-to-end Unified Communications solution. (PRWeb Feb 4, 2009)

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) July 22, 2009 -- The world's easiest programming language today launched on the Web with the debut of a free "alpha test" version of revMedia 4.0. This new version of the company's popular cross-platform development tool can now deploy to all major browsers on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Users can use revMedia's English-like programming language, revTalk, to write applications in less time and with less effort than traditional, more costly Web development tools.

The revWeb authoring environment and revTalk are modern descendents of natural-language programming technologies such as SmallTalk, Apple's HyperCard, AppleScript, and Adobe Director Lingo.