Open-Xchange Receives Editors Choice Award

Open source collaboration software earns top award for Open-Xchange Appliance Edition


NUREMBERG, Germany, Jan. 10, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Open-Xchange announced today it has received an Editors Choice Award for its Open-Xchange Appliance Edition by Download Atlas. Open-Xchange integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing.

Download Atlas (www.downloadatlas.com) is a resource for free-to-try, freeware, open-source software downloads.

"We are delighted to be recognized by Download Atlas," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "We grew our user base last year to more than 24 million- an increase of 60 percent from 2009 - accolades like this are a good reason why."

With recently introduced "Social OX" features, Open-Xchange also gives users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts - for example from Google and Yahoo - into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can be managed more easily. In addition, contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing can be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book - giving users easy access to the latest contact information within their personal network. Users can now integrate and merge their address books from Google Mail and Facebook into Open-Xchange, as well.

About Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, please visit www.open-xchange.com.



            

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