Collax Names Channel Sales Leader

BEDFORD, Mass., October 12, 2006 - Collax, Inc. today named Christopher Ackley to lead its U.S. Channel Sales team. Collax works with solution providers to deliver a suite of open source applications to help run small and growing businesses, including security, networking, and communication with no Linux knowledge required.

Ackley brings experience in channel management and business development to Collax. Most recently, he was national partner manager at Datawatch Corporation in Lowell, Mass., responsible for North America. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

With 8000 customers in Europe, Collax moved its headquarters to the U.S. and in August launched its full line of Linux-based server solutions here. Collax was founded in early 2005 and since has received series A funding from Intel Capital, Atlas Venture Partners and Wellington Partners.

"Building on the momentum of our U.S. product launch, we seek channel partner relationships that will propel Collax and our partners to the same strong results we've achieved in Europe," said Paula Hunter, U.S. VP of Marketing for Collax. "Recent surveys indicate tremendous interest in open source software by the six million small- and medium-size businesses in the U.S."

Collax Product Portfolio
Collax develops and markets server solutions for security, networking, and communication, integrated with an easy-to-use GUI (graphical user interface) for installation, updates and maintenance. All Collax server solutions can be easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure. The current offering includes:

Collax Business Server is a Linux-based server solution, which offers security, networking and communication functions and requires no Linux know-how. It is available as a free software license for up to five non-commercial users, and can scale for use in small to medium-sized businesses and distributed branch offices of large enterprises.

Collax Security Gateway is a Unified Threat Management solution providing Web, email and network security with features such as antivirus, IDS, IPS, anti-spam, firewall, VPN, Web content filtering, and networking features - traffic management and multi-WAN - all integrated in a single management platform. Available either as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance including software, the gateway is easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure.
Collax Open-Xchange Server is a collaboration suite, which offers tools to facilitate communication for personal information management as well as efficient team collaboration - whether project management, customer care or internal workflows. The server is available as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance.

Collax Appliances are pre-installed, turn-key solutions that combine software and hardware to provide ease of use with no Linux knowledge required. Depending on a company's size and intended level of use, a Collax appliance will be configured for maximum benefit.

About Collax, Inc. - Simply Linux
With more than 8,000 installations worldwide, Collax delivers turn-key, Linux-based server solutions to help run a business. The solutions contain a suite of best of breed open source applications for security, networking and communication. Also available pre-loaded on hardware, the server software can be used with any Windows, Mac or Linux client devices and requires no customer administration. SMBs or departments of larger enterprises realize Linux functionality, scalability, security and rapid innovation without learning a new operating system.

Collax is based in Bedford, Massachusetts and Munich, Germany and its investors include Atlas Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Wellington Partners. For more information, visit www.collax.com.

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