AXIGEN Mail Server Takeoff on the Australian Market

Bucharest, October 5, 2007 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional mail server vendor, announced today the closure of its first partnership agreement in Australia with the Cleartext company (http://www.cleartext.com.au).

The Australia based company Cleartext offers a carefully selected suite of messaging and collaboration solutions, from IM servers and appliances to security and policy management solutions. The company’s goal is to enable companies of all sizes to maximize the integrity, confidentiality and availability of their messaging systems.

“We selected the AXIGEN mail server after a process of evaluating several mail server solutions. Our selection criteria was based on the requirement to have a secure, standards based and scalable mail platform for our new ClearEmail managed service platform and to recommend to our clients in Australia. AXIGEN’s high-end technology doubled by outstanding and around the clock support services convinced us their messaging solutions were our best choice,” said David Banes, Cleartext Director.

“The new partnership with Cleartext is AXIGEN’s first step on the Australian market. We trust this valuable business relationship will help us adapt our innovative messaging solutions to all specific requirements of companies operating in Australia. We are also determined to expand our distribution network on this new market, as well as our worldwide presence. In the first 9 months of 2007 alone, our partner network has been increased by 90 percent,” concluded Oana Bornaz, AXIGEN CEO.

AXIGEN Mail Server is THE mail server for Linux professionals, offering unmatched manageability and control over even the smallest details of heavy email traffic, so as to make the best of all hardware and connectivity resources.

Now at version 4.0.2, AXIGEN runs on several Linux and BSD distributions, on Solaris and PowerPC and signed technology partnerships with Sun Microsystems, RedHat, IBM and Avira. 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.

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, featuring special offers for entities operating in educational and governmental sectors. The first commercial version of AXIGEN for all major Linux distributions was unveiled at LinuxWorld Expo, in London, in September 2005. Two years after the official launch, AXIGEN has already concluded business agreements with 100 domestic and international partners from over 60 countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Romania and manages e-mail traffic for approximately 1 million 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 Cleartext
Communication and collaboration tools are cornerstones of businesses that use IT systems. Cleartext specializes in the provision of segment leading infrastructure and security solutions for these types of systems and offers hosted solutions for businesses that prefer to out source. Cleartext provides email, IM, mobile (SMS/MMS) and collaboration solutions with a focus on security, spam and virus filtering.

Cleartext has built a reputation for selecting best of breed messaging and collaboration solutions. We deliver professional services and solutions to small to medium sized organizations in the Australian market. For further details, please visit: http://www.cleartext.com.au