PostPath, creator of the Linux-based PostPath Email and Collaboration Server, demonstrated native, network protocol level compatibility with Microsoft Outlook, Active Directory, already installed Exchange Servers, and other email ecosystem applications such as BlackBerry.

According to PostPath CEO Duncan Greatwood, “this is the first time any company, outside of Microsoft, has demonstrated full, native support for the Exchange network protocols for email and collaboration without using plug-ins, connectors or making any other kind of desktop software changes.”

"The DEMO conferences are renowned for spotlighting companies that break new ground and PostPath is a great example of a company poised to significantly change the corporate email and collaboration space,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences. “By creating an email server that natively supports both market incumbents such as Outlook and products based on open source and open standards, the company is breaking new ground, giving users a completely new set of choices when it comes to their email and collaboration infrastructure.”

“PostPath is pleased to use the DEMOfall Conference to show the details of our radically different approach to email and collaboration – an approach that will make it possible for our users to keep one foot in the Microsoft camp and also take advantage of the new generation of cost-effective tools and capabilities that are part of the open world,” said PostPath CEO, Duncan Greatwood. 

PostPath demonstrated both an unmodified Outlook client and an open-source Ajax Web client from Zimbra connected to a PostPath Server, viewing calendar free-busy information for both Exchange and PostPath hosted users.

The ability to view cross-server free/busy in a mixed Linux and Windows server environment has never been possible before. “PostPath’s unique server-side, network-protocol-based compatibility is the key to unlocking Exchange’s hold over enterprise infrastructure,” said Greatwood. “This gives users the ability to take advantage of a new generation of efficient, cost-effective tools and capabilities in an open infrastructure, while avoiding disrupting their existing systems and indeed providing the means to carry the best of those systems forward into the future.”