New, Sponsor-Supported Version is Alternative to "$108,000 Per Year" Microsoft Solution*; Will Challenge Business Models of Microsoft and Google in Weak Economy.
New York – Dec 09, 2008 – Unison(TM), the only fully-unified communications software, is now available free of charge as the world's first sponsor-supported enterprise application. This move gives millions of SMBs worldwide an exciting zero-cost alternative to high-cost solutions like Microsoft Exchange or simplistic hosted offerings such as Google Apps.
With sponsor-supported Unison now available, any organization can download the Linux and Windows-based software at www.unison.com, then deploy it without needing to buy licenses. Unison is:
Michael Choupak, chief executive officer of Unison Technologies, the creator of Unison, said, "This represents a new era for the software industry - and a direct challenge to the traditional model of overpriced software. As the first sponsor-supported free business software, Unison gives businesses the combined power of applications like Microsoft Exchange and a Cisco PBX - but at zero cost."
The first sponsor of the new, sponsor-supported edition of Unison is the New York-based hosted business applications provider, Intermedia.
Unison provides powerful enterprise unified communications like Microsoft, but with no license fees; and it offers the low cost of Google Apps, except that it runs securely, on-premise, behind the company firewall, so businesses are not forced to host their vital data with Google or any other third party. Unison is the only enterprise-grade unified communications system available at no cost.
Unison combines e-mail, telephone, instant messaging, calendars and contacts into a single system. It includes a Linux-based server, Unison Server(TM), which powers all text and voice communications for an organization, and Unison Desktop(TM), a Windows or Linux-based desktop client that gives employees all communication inside one application, including e-mail, IM, voicemail, telephony and more.
"Microsoft's CEO said last year that his two greatest challenges are Linux and ad-supported software," said Rurik Bradbury, Unison Technologies Chief Marketing Officer. "Unison is both of these - fast, powerful, easy-to-use software that is powered by Linux and also sponsor-supported, so it is totally free to use."
With our new enterprise software model, Unison will mount a serious challenge to Microsoft's highly-profitable Exchange franchise all over the world, especially in developing countries."
With a single server handling all business messaging, the IT department drastically reduces costs because it no longer needs to purchase and maintain an expensive email or groupware server, a directory server or instant messaging system and a separate PBX system.
In addition, end users get Unison Desktop, which runs on Microsoft Windows or on Linux. Unison Desktop provides broader functionality than traditional e-mail and groupware clients - which offer only e-mail, contacts and calendar management - because it gives users always-synchronized access to their e-mail, instant messages, telephone calls, voicemails, calendars, address books and more, all from a single application.
Unison is available for any organization to download and use at www.unison.com.
*Source: Ferris Research, The Total Cost of Ownership of Microsoft Unified Communications, November 2008. The research concluded that buying and operating the Microsoft solution will cost a typical 50-employee company an average of $180 per user per month, which equates to $2160 per user each year or $108,000 per year for the company.
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