About PostPath

Compatibility. Lower costs. Less complexity. More innovation.

PostPath is dedicated to the creation of a better email and collaboration infrastructure - better for users, better for IT departments, and a better value in general.

But PostPath realizes that better doesn't necessarily mean incompatible. In fact, PostPath recognizes that Microsoft Exchange™ has become the defacto standard for email in businesses large and small. To create a better email server, one that businesses can actually use, PostPath set out to build one that is interoperable with Exchange™ at the network protocol level.

To achieve this, PostPath set out to break open the compatibility lock that Exchange™ has had over email infrastructure. The result is the only non-Microsoft email server that offers drop-in/native interoperability with Outlook™, Exchange™ and with the rest of the existing email ecosystem - including Active Directory™, ActiveSync™, and applications like BlackBerry™ Enterprise Server (BES). This means that NO plug-ins or cumbersome middleware are ever required.

At the same time, with its open standards, Linux-based approach, PostPath solves many of the problems associated with Exchange™ and its legacy JET database around archiving, backup/restore, and high availability. With PostPath, the innovations of the open standards world become accessible. This includes innovations at the infrastructure level in areas such as archiving and disaster recovery, as well as user-focused innovations like browser-independent AJAX web client support.

Architected to run on a lean infrastructure, PostPath delivers simple and cost effective bottomless email boxes, virtualization, and secure high performance routing with Postfix. Built using standard tools and to run on high-performance, lower-cost hardware, the PostPath Server™ provides a dramatic increase in scalability, improved user experience, simplified system management, and better ease of integration for future applications compared to Exchange™ . All this is achieved without user disruption and at savings of up to 80% of the cost of ownership of Exchange™ .

Benefits of the PostPath Server™ include:

Scalability and performance (requiring fewer servers/enabling more users and data per server)
System management that approaches zero footprint, requiring fewer IT resources
"Simple-forward archiving," enabling simple, inexpensive and efficient email archiving
Straightforward high availability, replication, and disaster recovery
Backup/Restore using industry standard tools
Flexible and cost-effective mass storage options
Better, more economical choices when it comes to virus filtering and archiving
Web 2.0 collaboration

About PostPath

PostPath has developed the industry's first natively 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.

Click here to read the PostPath Corporate Backgrounder.