Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Open-Xchange
As you might guess, Open-Xchange is an open source product and one that provides an alternative to Microsoft Exchange. You’re right so far.
The product goes further, however. Open-Xchange is available in several different forms with one being an “express” all-in-one combo of Open-Xchange and an integrated Ubuntu Linux platform.
Additionally, Open-Xchange delivers 11 collaboration modules – there’s the opportunity to share calendars and the like which you would expected, but it also provides a web-based portal, forum, project team site, news repository and more making it a terrific SharePoint alternative too.
Open-Xchange is a fully standards-based program. The authors have elected to use completely standard constructs and languages for building the software and maintaining its data which offers protection against the ever-present problem of vendor lock-in. In other words, you can integrate Open-Xchange with a host of other products – including Outlook on user desktops – and you can even replace Open-Xchange in the future if you so need.
You can try out Open-Xchange online with a fully featured sandbox setup. Usernames and passwords are listed on the link.
Open-Xchange comes in four flavours: the Express Edition is a true SBS replacement with an easy installation wizard which leads you through setting up both the operating system and the application. You can also get this as a community edition but without OXtender, which provides Microsoft Outlook connectivity. OXtender is only available in the commercial versions. Next, the hosting edition allows web hosts and resellers to provide customised Open-xchange hosting for others.
Finally there is a more advanced server edition which does not ship with Ubuntu but is designed for use with existing Debian Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise environments. E-mail and telephone support is only available for this server edition. Feature-wise, the server edition is largely identical to the Express Edition but adds automated updates.
David Bass
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