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Welcome

to the official website of the open source project Open-Xchange™.

The Open-Xchange™ Collaboration and Integration Server Environment allows you to create, store and link appointments, contacts, tasks, email, bookmarks, documents, forums and many more elements and share them with other users. This environment can be accessed via any modern web browser and multiple fat clients like KDE Kontact, Apples iCAL, Konqueror, Mozilla Calendar, and many more, based on open standards and interfaces.
If you download the Outlook OXtender, then the Open-Xchange™ Server can also be accessed via MS Outlook and Palm devices. Browse the Wiki and the download section for further information.

Every 3rd party product can access this application over many different interfaces such as WebDAV (XML), LDAP, iCal, and HTTP/S. This makes the Open-Xchange™ Server a powerful product which can be used in many of different business and private areas successfully delivering access to e-mail and distributed groupware functions.

The Open-Xchange™ Server is based on the following open source daemons and services:

just to list a few which have been integrated to date.


Free Evaluation of Open-Xchange™ Server

To evaluate the community version of Open-Xchange Server, Open-Xchange Virtual Appliance on VMware. It is easy to install and use. Please register here for free download.


Download Open-Xchange™ Server

The latest stable Open-Xchange community edition 0.8.2 is giving community members the enhancements found in Service Pack 1 for the commercial version of Open-Xchange Server. For a complete list of improvements please see the changes.

You find some external install How-To's (Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Slackware, Mandrake and FreeBSD) on our documentation page.

For a complete list of changes/improvement please see the changes file which is distributed with this release or refer to the online version.
You find some external install How-To's (Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Slackware, Mandrake and FreeBSD) on our documentation page.

You will find the current release of Open-Xchange™ Server by clicking here

Find information about the i18n project as well as other important information in ourFAQ section.
Your know-how, experience, and skills are needed to make Open-Xchange even better. We welcome all contributions to Open-Xchange™ or to related projects or to OXtenders read more...

If you want to stay up-to-date about the Open-Xchange™ project, and desire to have the latest news and announcements, you can access our news-archive or join our Newsletter



Free download or purchase? Comparison of Community and Commercial Version

  Open-Xchange 0.8
(free download version)
Open-Xchange® 5
(commercial version)
Open Source based core engine at the server x x
sitemaintenance (incl. certified bug fixes)   x
5-year maintenance pledge   x
update and upgrade protection   x
standard support   x
easy to install (installation tools)   x
easy to manage (keep it up and running) / monitoring   x
admin and user manuals as well as integrated online help   x
web-based administration   x
certified 3rd party applications   x
certified OXtenders (OpenSource or proprietary)   x
whitepapers und documentation x x
MS-Outlook und Palm connectors o x
( x ) available ( o ) commercial extension


Spotlight on related Open Source projects

Third party products -- open source or proprietary -- can access Open-Xchange through various interfaces such as WebDAV (XML), LDAP, iCal, and HTTP/S. Additional XML-based APIs, and support for common open standards such as VCARD and VTODO will help developers access the core modules. To further enhance the possibilities using Open-Xchange in diverse private and enterprise scenarios, we would like to get your attention and contribution to the following Open source projects.

Visual Basic API for Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange Active Directory Integration

Open-Xchange Jabber Integration

A big "Thank You" to all who has contributed to these Howto's! Please keep them coming; as Open-Xchange™ Server is built and installed on more systems, these How-To's help others make better informed design and development decisions as they port Open-Xchange™ to more Unix, Linux, and Unix-like operating systems.

Your Open-Xchange™ Development Team


 

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