AXIGEN Announces its First Gold Partner in the Philippines

Bucharest, July 14th, 2007 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional mail server vendor, announced today the closure of a strategic agreement with IPSYSTEMS Inc (http://www.ipsystems.ph), the company’s first partner in the Philippines.

Based on its ten year experience on the Philippine market, IPSYSTEMS Inc provides excellent services in engineering and designing, installing, commissioning, and repairing of computer systems. The company offers custom-made Linux packages for each client's needs and requirements and has been successfully collaborating with AXIGEN for over a year.

“Our new and valuable partnership agreement with AXIGEN is an affirmation of our corporate mission, which is to continuously provide the Linux advantage to corporate organizations in the Philippines. We are confident and highly appreciative that this partnership will result in a continuous satisfaction for our clients, due to the secure and innovative solutions provided by AXIGEN,” said Patricia B. Celis, Vice President of IPSYSTEMS Inc.

“We are really pleased to have closed such a valuable partnership and to have made our way to the Philippines. Given our partner’s extensive knowledge of the local market, we are confident we will increase AXIGEN Mail Server awareness within the Philippine business environment. Local organizations will thus have better access to a state-of-the-art range of technologies developed by AXIGEN”, concluded Oana Bornaz, AXIGEN CEO.

The AXIGEN Mail Server has recently won the ServerWatch 2007 Product Excellence Award for the Communications Server category, after having competed with four other messaging solutions – Zimbra, CommuniGate, Merak and Lotus.

Based on a multiplatform architecture, the AXIGEN Mail Server, now at version 4.0, runs on several Linux and BSD distributions, on Solaris and PowerPC and signed technology partnerships with Sun Microsystems, RedHat, IBM and Avira. Currently, AXIGEN products are distributed by a network of 90 partners worldwide, as the distribution network has been increased by 60 percent in the first five months of 2007.

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About AXIGEN

A dynamic and talented team of professionals with 15 years of experience in technology research and software security, embarked in 2003 on a new and challenging project, under the brand name AXIGEN.

AXIGEN Mail Server is a fast, reliable and secure internet messaging solution, offering the power and sturdiness of a carrier class mail server. The first commercial version of AXIGEN for all major Linux distributions was unveiled at LinuxWorld Expo, in London, in September 2005. One year after the official launch, AXIGEN has already concluded business agreements with more than 90 domestic and international partners from over 50 countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Romania and manages e-mail traffic for approximately 500,000 mailboxes worldwide.

AXIGEN smoothly integrates SMTP/POP/IMAP and WebMail, offering unique configurability and security that allow system administrators to have full control of the email traffic. Our mission is to help AXIGEN users and partners worldwide to build trust in our products, as well as in our business relationships. For further details, please visit: www.axigen.com.

About IPSYSTEMS Inc
IPSYSTEMS Inc is a Linux solutions provider specializing in Open Source technologies for the server requirements of Philippine enterprises and organizations. Incorporated in April 1998, its technical team consists of seasoned experts in systems integration, development and maintenance, with over ten (10) years of experience in open source.

We serve our market by providing the Linux advantage – the benefits, convenience and security of a Linux server - along with the appropriate Linux-based solutions that answer our customers’ communication needs.
For further details, please visit: www.ipsystems.ph.