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Open-Xchange Server is a messaging and collaboration solution combining common free software packages, open standards and web services. Open-Xchange Server is available as proprietary software and as a community supported open-source software package. The company producing Open-Xchange, also named Open-Xchange, is headquartered in Tarrytown, NY, USA, with offices in Germany (Olpe/Nürnberg).
Features & Functions
Open-Xchange delivers the following:
Critical Collaborative functions such as [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Webmail.html/ Email], [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Calendar.html/ Calendaring], [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Contacts.html/ Contacts],
and [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Tasks.html/ Task management] - fully integrated with advanced groupware features such as [http://www.open-xchange.com/oxcms/export/sites/default/misc/Documail_Viewlet_LP.swf / Documail], Smart Linking, Smart Permissions, [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Documents.html/ Document Sharing], [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Projects.html/ Project Management], [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/Forum.html/ User Forums], and a [http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/product/KnowledgeBase.html/ Knowledge Base].
Open-Xchange Server supports:
* SyncML enabled devices.
* Third party software provides access from Treo devices
* Any modern web browser
* Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express via the Outlook OXtender, a piece of software that allows the Outlook client to interact with an Open-Xchange Server as though it were a Microsoft Exchange Server
* WebDAV interface (XML), LDAP, iCal, HTTP(S), SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and SyncML
OXtenders and Integration
The Open-Xchange integration philosophy is based on common standards, working with existing IT infrastructure on standard interfaces such as WebDAV and XML (commercial version) interfaces and Java API to allow for effortless IT evolution. The rapid assimilation and innovation is built into the very components that OX is created from, with structural security features, anti-spam, archiving, and anti-spam elements. Other OX features include:
* LiveBookmarks (Mozilla Firefox)
* Ox Backup: SEP, Arkeia
* Sarbox Archiving: MPP
* Fax: Ferrari
Additional features, exclusive to the commercial version of OX include: plugins for Outlook and PALM, SyncML interface, and a Samba interface.
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