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Open Source Groupware Provider Open-Xchange Announces First Partner Summit
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| Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced
| the first Open-Xchange Partner Summit taking place October 8 at the
| RheinEnergie Stadion in Cologne, Germany. The Summit provides the partner
| community with a unique forum to learn how to advance their business with
| e-mail and collaboration services.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2717964.htm
Recent:
Open-Xchange Tries To Liberate Your Contact List
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| Open-Xchange, an open-source e-mail and collaboration software maker, has set
| up a test Web site that allows people to pull in their contact information
| from various social networking services like LinkedIn and Facebook. The goal
| of the project is give people a chance to take control of their contacts and
| put all of their personal and work information in one place. By creating what
| amounts to a connections clearing house, Open-Xchange wants to spur to new
| types of networking services.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/open-xchange-tries-to-liberate-your-contact-list/?hpw
Open-Xchange 6.10 Helps Users Manage Social Networking Data
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| Open-Xchange is a great alternative to Microsoft Exchange that also syncs and
| supports Macs and Apple Mobile devices. It's used to manage email, tasks,
| calendars, documents, contacts, and now, thanks to a new concept
| called "Social OX," users' social networking communication as well.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/open-xchange-6-10-helps-users-manage-social-networking-data
Open-Xchange Introduces Collaboration Server Appliance -- a Cost-effective Open
Source Alternative to Microsoft Exchange
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| Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced
| a new offering for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) seeking
| easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy e-mail and collaboration software that is a
| cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Exchange -- with an initial cost of
| less than $70 per user annually.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1508274.htm
R.I.P. Exchange?
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| Over the years, many of Microsoft monopolies have been successfully attacked
| by open source: Linux on the server; Apache for Web servers; Firefox for Web
| browsers; and so on.
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| [...]
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| Cisco is buying PostPath, and that is going to kick Exchange in the head. You
| see, is an open-source based server program that doesn't just do e-mail and
| groupware, it actually has reverse-engineered Microsoft Exchange's protocols.
| Result: To someone sitting at a desk looking at your copy of Outlook, you
| won't be able to tell the difference.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/r_i_p_exchange
Open source could doom Exchange, one IT pro believes
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| The following post is a guest blog from new Google Subnet blogger Garett
| Kopczynski who this week launched Network World's Google Watcher blog.
| Kopczynski is an IT professional for the city of Keene, N.H., and has been
| involved in the transformation of the IT group as it increasingly explores
| cloud computing and Google Apps. He writes: I am seeing the evidence of a
| fundamental shift to open source. The clunkiness of the IT world I have
| experience with brings to mind the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and
| mammals waited in the wings. As people are exposed to the possibilities of
| server side applications and program alternatives, I think they will feel
| less obliged to go with the current standard. AOL, for instance, was the
| easiest option for Internet in the 1990's, and yet it is no longer an
| indomitable presence. Open source could spell extinction for the current IT
| standards.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29530
Microsoft Exchange dumped for Linux-based clone
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| After conducting an evaluation of alternatives, the hospital decided not to
| upgrade to a newer version of Exchange. Instead, it went with a Linux-based
| Exchange clone that it felt could meet the needs of its 700 users without
| forcing them and IT to learn a whole new system.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/052808-microsoft-exchange-linux-clone.html
Related:
U.S. judge orders Intel to try to recover e-mails
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| Farnan gave Intel 30 days to recover as many of the missing e-mails
| as possible and to draw up a report on the steps it is taking to do
| so, Mulloy said.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070307:MTFH90775_2007-03-07_18-56-16_N06406049&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/2fbanr
AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352
Microsoft dirty tricks, part two (Bob Cringely)
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| "So the outside vendor was Hewlett-Packard, one of Microsoft's
| hardware OEMs, which is to say Microsoft's bitch.
|
| The tape disappearance was blamed on HP, which accepted the blame,
| and the employees directly involved kept expecting there to be
| repurcussions, especially legal ones. They expected to be deposed by
| Burst lawyers. But it never happened.
|
| This was, for Microsoft, a perfect ending. ..."
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http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_4.html
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| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
Bush team deletes embarrassing emails
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| According to the Washington Post, countless e-mails to and from
| many key White House staffers have been deleted to avoid
| congressional subpoenas.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38892
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
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| A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's eight email
| server clusters last Wednesday. Microsft engineers have struggled to identify
| the cause, forcing several reboots.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/virgin_blueyonder_email_outage_microsoft/
[Australia:] WA infrastructure dept close to e-mail disaster
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| Western Australia's Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI)
| has revealed its Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail system is
| suffering frequent outages that are creating a risk of
| embarrassing public data loss.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/WA_infrastructure_dept_close_to_e_mail_disaster/0,130061791,339274592,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/395b26
Why Exchange could be in trouble
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| Because Exchange is a whole other world, and, even with the large
| Exchange community, I find it equally opaque at times.
|
| So, for now at least, we went to the tried and true
| Postfix+Courier-IMAP solution that is ever so common in
| UNIX shops, companies that are open to using Linux, and ISPs.
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http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/06/06/why-exchange-could-be-in-trouble/
Specsavers opens eyes to open source
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| The group aims to have made the same transition across all its 960
| stores with Redhat, a version of the Linux open source operating
| system, being used to run its retail computer terminals. Four
| thousand of these have been transitioned so far, with another
| 4,000 still to be done in other countries.
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| Its point of sale machines will also be moved to Linux, as will
| the servers running its stores and regional headquarters. The
| firm's large-scale data centre in Guernsey will be running Sun
| Solaris. It has also invested in an open source accounting
| package to run its financials outside the UK, which it is under
| an agreement not to name. The UK system won't change, said Khan,
| because he believed that "if it ain't broke, you don't fix it".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/14/specsavers_open_source/
Read the Exchange 2007 small print
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| Hmmm. Simplification? Sounds more like a way for Microsoft to wring
| more dollars from customers, to me.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=175
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