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Originally Posted by newmember  Remember HPs OpenMail.
There used to be a free version under some license back in 2001.
OpenMail was sold to Samsung and became Samsung contact. Welcome to Samsung Contact
Well Samsung contact has now shut down samsungcontact for 2007.
Maybe someone could get them to release the code to OSS. |
Well, just to get the history straight - Samsung has licensed OpenMail from HP and created Contact as a derived product; it was not sold to Samsung and Samsung did not get rights from HP to open-source. Even if they did, Samsung did very little development work on the HP codebase after 2002, so the product would be quite outdated.
However, HP also licensed OpenMail to Scalix in 2003, that license was amended in 2006 to allow Scalix to open source the bits should they want to.
HP never provided a truly free version, although for a while you could get a free 5-user license key with no updates and support. Scalix provides both free and commercial versions of their product and has added substantial development effort to make it a much more advanced and modern product than Contact ever was.
Cheers,
Florian (and yes - I did work for both HP and Samsung as a consultant and I do work for Scalix now. The above, however, is simply stating the facts)