Open-Xchange Open Source collaboration hits 15 million user mark |
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| 12/23/2009 9:23:51 AM | |
Open-Xchange is the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software and it has increased its number of users to more than 15 million people worldwide, with an increase of 80% in the year 2009. The results come from deals with software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers include Dotster (among the world’s largest domain name registrars servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide), NameCheap (a leader in domain name registration and web hosting with 1 million domains), Versatel (Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider with 1.3 million e-mail accounts), Nexen-Alterway Hosting (the French leader in open source web hosting) and NTS (a leading distributor in the Asian market). The exception of NTS laid the first distributor moving into the SaaS to market in Asia, all the others have replaced their web mail with Open-Xchange and are selling additional groupware and mobility capabilities providing supplementary benefits along with revenue opportunities for the SaaS providers. We have made tremendous progress in sales and development in 2009 and there is an expectation to build on that momentum with a goal of reaching 26 million users in 2010. There are very exciting deals in our sales pipeline and more social network features coming to our collaboration software. They are viewing the swiftness for accelerating as the looking ahead to next year. The company’s software is also used on-premise by some 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide, inclusive of the addition in the year 2009 for a large Japanese retail bank and the University Hospital Cologne. In the year 2009, the company gave introduction to an innovative groupware concept called ‘Social OX’, which can cumulative e mail from Google, Yahoo and many others into a folder in Open-Xchange, and automatically add and incorporate contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing to the Open-Xchange address book. With availability of Open-Xchange OXtender for Business Mobility in 2009, users can receive push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including Nokia, Windows Mobile, iphone , BlackBerry and others. Other additions this year include OXtender for MacOS X, which enables the end users to access and edit all information and documents stored on the Open-Xchange server with their familiar desktop Mac applications. The availability was made for this month for a free open source connector for Mozilla Thunderbird, the cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Official Open-Xchange support for Dutch and Spanish languages was added to English, French and German and the Open Source community contributed many other language packs. Open-Xchange made announcement for important partner agreements. In the near future, the collaboration software will be extended with Rack-Soft’s leading Unified Communications software to give end users telephone, fax, instant messaging integrated with Open-Xchange e-mail, contacts, calendar and task information. SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software announced cooperation with Open-Xchange to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software as the first software to build on the social networking capabilities in Open-Xchange. Tag Clouds: website hosting, hosting, web hosting, Free Web Hosting, Unlimited Website Hosting, Reseller Website Hosting, VPS Website Hosting, free website templates, Web Hosting news, Web hosting FAQ, Hosting Tutorials, Hosting Glossary, SEO TOOLS |
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