Samsung Contact was an enterprise

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and groupware server that ran on

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and

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. It was based on

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, which was licensed from

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. It provided email, calendars and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It could be accessed from many different clients, most notably

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. Development began in November 2001. Following a major reorganization of its sponsor entity,

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, most of the original core developers were laid off in 2003. Samsung Contact was discontinued at the end of 2007.

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