Open-Xchange partners with SpikeSource

   
  http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/news/article_2006-08-10.html
   
   
  Open-Xchange Joins Forces with SpikeSource to Offer Spike™ Certified Solutions
  Smart Collaboration™ available on Spike tested and certified Red Hat and SUSE Linux Stacks
   
  Tarrytown, NY, August 10, 2006 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source
collaboration software (http://www.open-xchange.com), announced today that it has joined forces
with SpikeSource, a leading provider of business ready open source solutions. SpikeSource is now
offering Open-Xchange Server as a Spike™ Certified solution.
   
  Open-Xchange Server 5 enables Smart Collaboration™ by providing mission critical collaborative
functions like email, calendaring, contacts and task management - fully integrated with advanced
groupware features such as Documail, Smart Linking, Smart Permissions, document sharing, project
tracking, user forums, and a knowledge base. Open-Xchange Server 5 works with the widest variety of
browsers, mobile devices and ‘rich clients' such as Microsoft Outlook. Open-Xchange Server 5 is now
available as a SpikeCertified business ready solution.
   
  "Ease of installation and ease of management are critical requirements of Open-Xchange’s
customers.”, said Dan Kusnetzky, EVP Marketing for Open-Xchange. “Open-Xchange is excited to help
SpikeSource offer Open-Xchange Server 5 as a SpikeCertified solution. By simplifying the
integration and support of Linux; open source middleware such as Apache and Tom Cat; and business
critical solutions, such as Open-Xchange Server 5; SpikeSource will help Open-Xchange’s customers
reduce their overall costs of doing business.
   
  "Businesses are in need of enterprise-class email, calendaring, contacts and task management
software to improve employee efficiency,” said Joaquin Ruiz, VP of Marketing and Product
Management, SpikeSource. “This agreement enables us to offer our customers affordable and
easy-to-use collaboration solutions.”
   
  Open-Xchange has customers in more than 60 countries since its launch in April 2005. Sales growth
is particularly strong in German speaking countries, the United States and France. To date,
Open-Xchange has recruited more than 600 partners in 45 countries.
   
  About Open-Xchange Server
   
  Open-Xchange Server 5 delivers twice the functionality of the typical collaboration server at
half the price.  It works with more browsers, PDA’s and rich clients.   Unique features – such as
Documail, the integration of document sharing and email, Smart Links, Smart Permissions, Universal
Access – make it the most productive collaboration tool on the market.  Organizations use
Open-Xchange Server’s GUI-based administration module featuring Tiered Entitlement to implement
role-based user management.  
   
  Open-Xchange Server 5 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 extend capabilities to mobile devices, fax servers,
back-up utilities, email archiving tools and Samba administration tools. 
   
  Launched in August 2004, Open-Xchange’s open source project is licensed under the General Public
License for the software program and the Creative Commons, Attribution, Noncommercial, ShareAlike
or CC:by-nc-sa for the digital content or Web Access Add-on.  Open-Xchange Server is ranked #4 out
of 358 groupware projects on the freshmeat.net website, #1 in document repositories, #4 in
handhelds, and the #163 most popular overall project, out of more than 40,000 listed projects. The
Open-Xchange community website, http://www.open-xchange.org, is visited by more than 200,000 unique
visitors each month.   On average, each month, the community version of Open-Xchange Server is
downloaded more than 6,000 times. Open-Xchange Server 5 was awarded Best Open Source Solution at
LinuxWorld Expo. The readers of ServerWatch awarded Open-Xchange Server best Messaging and
Collaboration Solution.
   
  About Open-Xchange Inc.
   
  Open-Xchange Inc. develops and delivers reliable and scalable messaging and advanced
collaboration solutions. Its flagship product, Open-Xchange Server, is the market-leading advanced
collaboration server that combines best-of-breed open source software with commercial add-ons and
connectors. Open-Xchange Inc. is headquartered in Tarrytown, NY, with research & development and
operations concentrated in Olpe and Nuremberg, Germany. For more information, please visit
www.open-xchange.com
   
  Contact
   
  For Open-Xchange: Bill Peterson, PageOne PR, (508) 393-8551, bill@pageonepr.com
   
  For SpikeSource: Alicia diVittorio, SparkPR, +1 415 321 1875
   
     
   
   
   


 				
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