November 4, 2011 — The second keynote at Friday’s Open-Xchange event in Cologne was delivered by the company’s CEO, Raphael Laguna, who began by offering a bit of company history, focusing on how the company turned a corner in 2006 by choosing to build an email platform for the cloud.
November 4, 2011 — He set out to discuss an era of disruption in the technology business, one that can basically be boiled down to the death of the desktop, but the more specific conditions of which include ubiquitous tablets and smartphones, apps running across multiple OS and devices, open platforms, the importance of hardware and the overtaking of the IT space by consumer behavior.