computer science

Samsung Contact

Samsung Contact is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Samsung Contact rather than just read about it. In short: Samsung Contact was an enterprise email and groupware server that ran on Linux and HP-UX. It provided email, calendars and other collaborative software.

Key takeaways

Samsung Contact belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Samsung Contact to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Samsung Contact from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Samsung Contact was an enterprise email and groupware server that ran on Linux and HP-UX. It provided email, calendars and other collaborative software. It could be accessed from many different clients, most notably Microsoft Outlook. It was based on HP OpenMail, which was licensed from Hewlett-Packard.

History Hewlett-Packard announced the end of life for its HP OpenMail mail server in 2001. Samsung was one of the largest OpenMail customers with 250,000 users. and OEM for the software in Asia. In November 2001 Samsung Data Systems acquired an unlimited OEM license for the software, and its Reading, England-based developers, from HP. Samsung SDS planned to make Contact, its name for OpenMail, its first enterprise product sold worldwide, and offered a temporary 90% discount in early 2002 for Contact 7.1. The company hoped to convert the five million current OpenMail users to Contact, and lure new customers using Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Microsystems's iPlanet. Later in 2002, Samsung intended to launch Contact 8.0 as a unified messaging platform including voicemail and instant messaging. Following a major reorganization of Samsung SDS, most of the original core developers were laid off in 2003. Samsung Contact was discontinued at the end of 2007.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Samsung Contact

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Samsung Contact claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Samsung Contact before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Samsung Contact ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Samsung Contact

In research: Samsung Contact appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Samsung Contact in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Samsung Contact is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Samsung software, Software engineering stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Samsung Contact outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Samsung Contact in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Samsung Contact means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Samsung Contact out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Samsung Contact in simple terms?

Samsung Contact was an enterprise email and groupware server that ran on Linux and HP-UX. It provided email, calendars and other collaborative software.

Why does Samsung Contact matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Samsung Contact?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Samsung Contact.