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Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository

Sunnyvale, Calif., August 7, 2008 – Zimbra has announced that Canonical, sponsors of Ubuntu, the fastest growing Linux distribution, will give users direct access to Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, which provides a centralized hub to manage multiple e-mail accounts and calendars online and offline, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, is a leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software.

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Unison released for Ubuntu to bring unified communications to Linux

August 5, 2008 – New York and LinuxWorld Expo – Unison Technologies (www.unison.com) today announced a wide-ranging partnership to bring unified communications to Linux. Unison, the first fully-unified communications software, will run both on Ubuntu Server and – with a just-released beta version – on Ubuntu Desktop Edition. For the millions of Ubuntu users, this offers a lower-cost and more functional alternative to legacy solutions.

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Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution

Leading open source proponents take first steps to make enterprise solutions available to combined user base

Linux World EXPO, San Francisco — August 5, 2008 – Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the highly regarded Linux distribution, Ubuntu, will offer Alfresco Labs 3 within a pre-built software download as part of its partner repository.  Using the simple apt-get command, end-users can execute a full installation, with all drivers and relevant dependencies pre-packaged.  This move provides Alfresco with a new platform from which to reach a rapidly expanding Ubuntu user-base.

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