Open-Xchange Offers Free Live-CD for Open-Xchange Server

   
    Open-Xchange Offers Free “Live-CD” for Open-Xchange Server
  Enables Easy Review of Leading Open Source Collaboration Server
   
  TARRYTOWN, NY, January 3, 2006 – Open-Xchange, Inc. today announced
the availability of a free, fully functional “Live-CD” of
Open-Xchange Server 5 that gives users a cost-free, risk-free way to test
all the attributes of the world’s leading open source alternative to
Microsoft Exchange.
   
  Open-Xchange Server 5 is the leading messaging and collaborative solution
based on open source technology. It provides key messaging functions like
email, calendaring, contacts and task management, fully integrated with
advanced groupware features such as project tracking, document sharing,
user forums, and a knowledge base. Open-Xchange Server 5 works with a wide
variety of email clients and mobile devices. Because it is built on open
platforms and open standards, it is easy to integrate with current IT
environments and future technologies.
   
  “With so much hype and confusion in the collaboration market these
days, we want to give customers and partners a way to see the experience
how straightforward, easy-to-use yet robust Open-Xchange is,” said Frank
Hoberg, CEO, Open-Xchange Inc. “This is not a polished, pre-run demo,
but the real live product that will give everyone who uses it a good idea
of what we offer.”
   
  Built on KNOPPIX Linux, the Live-CD contains a complete edition of
Open-Xchange Server 5 that boots directly from the CD-ROM, ensuring that
the host computer is not modified in any way. Any data that is added during
use of the CD is not saved and is deleted when the CD is removed.
   
  The Live-CD offers:
  ·        Testing of almost all user and administrative features
  ·        Easy start-up with no prior special technical knowledge
  ·        Outlook OXtender testing


  The Live-CD can be downloaded from www.open-xchange.com/live. Also
available is a first look online demo at 
http://www.open-xchange.com/tryfirst/.
   
  About Open-Xchange Server
  Open-Xchange Server is one of the most active and fastest growing open
source projects to date.  Launched in August 2004, Open-Xchange Server now
ranks #8 out of 303 groupware projects on freshmeat.net website, #4 in
handhelds, and overall #245 out of 39,371 listed projects. The Open-Xchange
community website, www.open-xchange.org, is visited by 130,000 unique
visitors each month, the GPL version of Open-Xchange Server is downloaded
more than 9,000 times each month.
   
  Open-Xchange Server 5, the commercial product launched in April 2005, is
engineered for ease of installation, migration, administration, integration
and use. It interoperates with virtually all web browsers and important
proprietary and open source rich clients. Open-Xchange Server supports the
two leading Enterprise Linux distributions, Red Hat and SUSE. Innovative
connectors, OXtenders, enhance customer flexibility by using open standard
APIs to integrate existing IT infrastructures, or even extend capabilities
to such as fax, VoIP, or CRM solutions.
   
  About Open-Xchange Inc.
Open-Xchange Inc. delivers reliable and scalable groupware, collaboration,
and messaging solutions.  Its flagship product, Open-Xchange Server, is the
market-leading collaboration server that combines best-of-breed open source
software with commercial software add-ons and connectors. Open-Xchange
Server is among the Top 300 most popular and most active open source
projects in the world today.  Open-Xchange Inc. is based in Tarrytown, NY,
with offices in Olpe and Nuremberg, Germany. For more information, please
visit www.open-xchange.com
   
   
   
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  Contact: 
  Bill Baker, Baker Communications Group, 860-350-9100, wbaker@bakercg.com
   


		
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