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Gordano Ltd., a provider of comprehensive enterprise-class messaging products successfully completed the acquisition of Softalk, a provider of messaging and collaboration software solutions.

The acquisition of Softalk’s messaging assets and customer contracts is believed to further enrich Gordano’s products and services for the small to medium enterprise (SME) providing options to either install in-house or subscribe through Gordano’s forthcoming hosted services.

"I would personally like to welcome customers, resellers and staff of Softalk to Gordano,” said Mohammed Rafi, managing director of Gordano, in a statement. “Gordano has an excellent reputation for customer support and the strength of their messaging products and services, and Softalk customers will benefit from this.”

Softalk’s comprehensive ranges of messaging and collaboration solutions have been designed to benefit SMEs and large enterprises. Incorporating the Softalk Mail Server, WorkgroupShare and Softalk Organizer products to create an integrated alternative to Exchange Server, the suite, as claimed offers every organization with high performance, dependable messaging and also provides its staff with the ability to create, manage and share its information.

“The Softalk acquisition will allow Gordano to offer one of the most comprehensive ranges of messaging and collaboration products and services to SMEs and large enterprises,” continued Rafi.

Rafi also believes that through this acquisition, companies can grow from five users through to tens of thousands users, utilizing messaging and collaboration solutions from both Softalk and Gordano, all coming from a single provider.

In related news, Gordano announced the general availability of version 17 of the Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS (News - Alert)). v17 is said to deliver Document Management capabilities to users, providing storage, sharing and editing of documents within the WebMail interface.