PostPath Named One of "Top 10 Startups to Watch" by Byte and Switch

April 5, 2007; 03:56 AM
has named it as one of the PostPath, creator of the industry’s only email and collaboration server that offers enterprises a drop-in alternative to Exchange™, today announced that Byte and Switch“Top 10 Startups to Watch” in the field of private storage networking and data management firms. Byte and Switch noted that “The ability to drop into a Microsoft network and work just like Exchange servers is PostPath’s most significant claim.” The influential publication compiles this list of Top 10 companies every six months.

“We see more and more companies migrating to a mixed environment,” said PostPath CEO Duncan Greatwood. “Being named one of Byte and Switch’s Top 10 Startups to Watch is another confirmation the market is ready for a high-quality, cost-effective Exchange alternative that scales to support even the largest enterprise customers.”

Companies on Byte and Switch’s “Top 10 Startups to Watch” list must have received new funding, launched new products, or added significant customers or partnerships in the past 18 months, and have a creative take on storage technology.

For more information about this award, visit Byte and Switch’s Top 10 Startups to Watch. http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=118998

About PostPath Server

PostPath’s Email and Collaboration Server 2.2 is a Microsoft Exchange alternative that combines unique support for drop-in compatibility and open-source technologies such as Linux and AJAX web-client access, efficient high availability, standards-based backup and restore, high-volume Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) processing, and low-cost commodity storage. The solution also delivers drop-in compatibility with unmodified Outlook™ desktops, Active Directory™, already-deployed Exchange infrastructure, and other email ecosystem applications such as BlackBerry™. The PostPath Server 2.2 can work in an Exchange-free environment or in a mixed open and Exchange environment.

About PostPath

PostPath has developed the industry’s first plug-compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Fully interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem, PostPath’s email and collaboration server provides enterprises a lean, high-performance messaging infrastructure, a radically improved cost model, and an innovation-rich upgrade path for traditional and Linux-friendly messaging environments. PostPath was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit www.postpath.com