Monday, 12 March 2007

Open-Xchange Unveils Community Project To Build Open Source Collaboration Suite

Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, has inaugurated the opening of the Open-Xchange Community project and the availability of source code and development documentation for its latest AJAX-based e-mail and groupware technology.

Open-Xchange and the web-hosting company, 1&1 Internet, recently announced the availability of MailXchange, 1&1's hosted e-mail and collaboration solution based upon Open-Xchange’s Smart Collaboration technology. Open-Xchange today is releasing the source code of 1&1 MailXchange server components under General Public License (GPL) and the AJAX-based user interface under Creative Commons License "Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5".

Based on work with 1&1 Internet, Open-Xchange now includes a new easy-to- use web user interface that is built on AJAX technology. The new user interface enables tool tips, draggable items, and right-click menus in the user interface. This open and standard compliant software architecture enables partners and developers to integrate third party information systems and content of popular web applications from companies like Google, eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo into Open-Xchange. Additionally, Open-Xchange is releasing source code and documentation for developers of the next generation Open-Xchange Server. The open source components include a new Open-Xchange servlet engine using Apache Jserv Protocol (AJP) to communicate with a web server like Apache, the company said.