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An American company originally called Helix Code, founded by MiguelDeIcaza (the original architect/author of most of GNOME) and Nat Friedman. The name is a play on "Simian", and they have a strong monkey theme in their branding.

[Ximian] spent a lot of time making [GNOME] look pretty, by working on good themes, and also cleaning up applications to make them workable and useful. They wrote applications they believed should exist that weren't around, eg the [Evolution] groupware/MailClient and the RedCarpet channel-based package distribution system. They were also responsible for a [Free] commercial version of [GNOME] called XimianDesktop, and [Mono].

They were purchased by [Novell] in August 2003, apparently in order to have a decent !GroupWise client for Linux, and for which a connector for [Evolution] is now in heavy development.

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