Volta Mantovana, Italy and Bucharest, Romania, April 22, 2009. AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announces today the signing of a new distribution partnership for its mail server product range with Italian company GateSoft (http://www.gatesoft.biz). The new partnership is aimed at expanding AXIGEN's reach on the Italian market.

GateSoft provides a wide range of IT services, from network architecture design and implementation, to software distribution, IT consultancy and training. They are focused on providing small to medium companies with the technological advantage they need to acquire a better position in their market and expand their business.

"Our main goal for our partnership with AXIGEN is to deliver an extremely effective collaborative messaging solution to our customers. We are very pleased with this partnership as it will also support our efforts to expand our services and expertise in the Linux World, and allow us to gain a competitive edge in the mobile and collaborative messaging world," said Davide Martelli, GateSoft Co-owner.

"This year, AXIGEN is focusing on expanding its local reach on all the markets it has entered in the previous years, and Italy is key in this strategy. We are confident that, with the help of our new partner, GateSoft, we will be able to provide Italian customers with a perfectly fit, comprehensive and intuitive messaging solution, giving them the extra edge they need to consolidate their business and take it to a higher level ," concluded Oana Bornaz, AXIGEN CEO.

One of the top ten messaging solutions in the world according to The Radicati Group, the AXIGEN Mail Server features a carrier class technology and outstanding support. Winner of the ServerWatch 2007 Product Excellence Award for the Communications Server category, AXIGEN, now at version 7.1, runs on several Linux and BSD distributions, on Solaris, on Windows operating systems, on PowerPC and SPARC architectures and is becoming the messaging solution of choice for a growing number of service providers and enterprises worldwide.

About GateSoft
Established in 2008, GateSoft s.n.c., is a company focused on providing companies with outstanding IT services. Our vision is to deliver the most efficient, cost effective and easy to use IT solutions to our customers, thus helping them to further expand their business. For more details, please visit: www.gatesoft.biz

About AXIGEN and Gecad Technologies
Established in 2001, Gecad Technologies SA, member of the GECAD Group, is the vendor of AXIGEN, a messaging solution for professionals that ensures an efficient and secure worldwide communication environment and business growth for both service providers and companies of all sizes. Currently, AXIGEN is distributed internationally by over 170 partners from 80 countries and manages email traffic for more than 11,000 companies with 6 million end-users.

Our team of seasoned professionals, with 15 years of experience in messaging and IT security delivers cutting-edge products, by developing an innovative carrier-class technology based on proprietary architectures such as AXIGEN GrowSecure™, AXIGEN SmartProcessing™ and AXIGEN UltraStorage™. For further details, please visit: www.axigen.com