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Unicon Customer University of Louisiana at Monroe Selects Zimbra Collaboration Suite as New Messaging Solution for Students & FacultyPHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- Unicon, Inc., the open source experts for enterprise portals, applications, and professional services for the online campus in academic institutions, and Zimbra, the leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging software, today announced a major new customer as a result of their strategic business partnership in higher education. As an official reseller and strategic partner with Zimbra, Unicon sold Zimbra Collaboration Suite to the University of Louisiana at Monroe for its 17,000-plus student and faculty population. The university chose Zimbra after an extensive review and analysis of legacy messaging products and today's innovative Web 2.0 Ajax-based solutions. "We are always looking for new ways to be more self-reliant and more cost effective," said Brian Taylor, senior Web programmer, Computing Center, University of Louisiana at Monroe. "When we have software needs on campus, often the first place we look for a solution is open source. We don't want to sacrifice functionality or usability, so sometimes we find an open source solution, other times we have look to commercial venders. Zimbra had every thing we were looking for and more." "Zimbra is excited that Louisiana University at Monroe, a leading academic institution, has selected Zimbra to deliver a solution to all of its students, faculty, staff and applicants," said Satish Dharmaraj, CEO, Zimbra. "The Zimbra solution has been selected by hundreds of educational institutions around the world due to its cross platform support, Web 2.0-based end user and administrative clients, and support for mobile devices - capabilities that uniquely meet the needs of increasingly heterogeneous higher educational institution environments like ULM." "The University of Louisiana at Monroe is well known for its innovative approach to campus communications with its students and faculty," said John C. Blakley, CEO of Unicon, Inc. "It's great to see them choose Zimbra, the industry's leading open source messaging platform, as their campus-wide solution." About Unicon & Zimbra in Higher Education Unicon announced its strategic alliance and reseller agreement with Zimbra for the higher education market in the fall of 2006. Unicon provides Zimbra products to academic institutions via direct sales, and as a dedicated hosted solution. With educational discounts, Zimbra email and messaging has a very low total cost of ownership for institutions, and allows them to provide a robust, feature-rich solution for their constituents, and also generate brand awareness and advertising revenue from merchants locally and nationwide. Zimbra supports virtually all desktop environments including: Linux, Macintosh and Windows, and today's most essential mobile devices including the Blackberry, Treo and Motorola Q. About the University of Louisiana at Monroe - ULM With over 8,500 students and steadily increasing enrollment, ULM is known for its excellence in a variety of academic areas and a faculty that focuses on students. ULM is a leader for Louisiana in research, economic development and partnerships with the community. We also produce more professionals for the region than any other university. Our campus is a vibrant place where scientists conduct cutting-edge research, where business leaders meet to create innovative strategies, and where students are educated for demanding careers. The University offers both traditional and innovative graduate and undergraduate programs in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Human Development, and Health Sciences. For more information, visit the university's Web site: http://www.ulm.edu. About Unicon Unicon, Inc. is the leading independent provider of open-source frameworks, applications and professional services for the online campus. Unicon delivers enterprise portal, collaboration, learning and integration technology for higher education institutions worldwide. The company is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate for the community source Collaboration and Learning Environment, and also a commercial affiliate of the uPortal open source Web portal initiative. Unicon strives to base its solutions on open-source technology for increased productivity and reduced costs. Unicon also provides a full complement of professional consulting, training and support services. More information about Unicon, Inc. is available at www.unicon.net. Unicon is a Registered Trademark of Unicon, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. |
