February 11, 2009
IceWarp Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that IceWarp has joined the Consortium: IcwWarp Joins CalConnect.

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IceWarp Joins US-Based Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium Membership Expands CalConnect’s Growth in the International Arena

– February 11, 2009

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.calconnect.org) has announced that IceWarp (www.icewarp.com) has become one of the 14 universities, 21 companies, and 2 open-source organizations that make up the consortium. Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, IceWarp has its development center in Europe (Prague) and technical teams are located on both sides of the Atlantic.

Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, IceWarp has its development center in Europe (Prague) and technical teams are located on both sides of the Atlantic.

IceWarp participated in CalConnect’s second Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event on November 4-6 in the Czech Republic and plans to be active in CalConnect’s Technical
Committees for Mobile, CalDAV and iSchedule.

“Having participated in a few CalConnect events, we were able to progress on the planned features of our upcoming product version faster and with confidence of compatibility,” said Jakub Klos, the founder of IceWarp. “We have learned that CalConnect is unique in bringing vendors together on a broad range of standards-related issues in the arena of calendaring, scheduling, and synchronization. Its methodology is also extremely effective in deploying the outcomes of committees and test events into recognized standards. By closing the loop between vendors, the end user will profit; we are happy to interact with others who share the same priority within CalConnect."

“As companies and organizations become international in scope and spread across more and more time zones, the work of CalConnect’s members assumes greater economic significance,” said the Consortium’s Executive Director Dave Thewlis. “CalConnect is finding strong interest in the challenges related to calendaring and scheduling among both North American and European organizations. The commonality among all of our members is their support of and increasing reliance on published protocols and implementation of open standards in calendaring and scheduling solutions. Our focus is on interoperability, and open standards are the key.”

About IceWarp®
IceWarp® Limited is an independent software developer targeting office, ISP, and enterpriseclass communications solution with a 10-year track record in the messaging industry.

IceWarp® Server is a premium messaging and collaboration platform that provides a full range of services, including secure Email, WebMail, Anti-Virus, multi-layer Anti-Spam, GroupWare, Instant Messaging, VoIP and mobile synchronization. To date, it has been adopted in more than 90 thousand installations and is servicing millions of end users worldwide. For more information, visit www.icewarp.com, email info@icewarp.com or call 1.888.ICEWARP.

About CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and
implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, IceWarp, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, neutralSpace, New York University, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, SWAMI (Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure), Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo!/Zimbra.