Screenshots of Open-Xchange's email hosting platform
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange (www.open-xchange.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched OXtender 2, a connector that enables users of Open-Xchange email and collaboration server to use Microsoft Outlook as the client software.
This announcement comes two weeks after Open-Xchange established partnerships with Web hosting providers Lunarpages and Cirrus Tech Ltd. to provide clients with Open-Xchange email and groupware.
Open-Xchange says its OXtender 2 is less expensive than Microsoft Exchange server and it integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with other features like document sharing and social networking.
According to Open-Xchange, Outlook users can synchronize with Open-Xchange server with the new software connector.
“Support for Microsoft Outlook as an email and personal information manager client still is a must have for a lot of mid-size businesses and large enterprises,” Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange said in a statement. “The new connector is completely directed towards Microsoft’s MAPI technology to ensure end users don’t even need to know what server is used.”
Open-Xchange says its software connector enables Windows users to email files directly in their Explorer file manager through Open-Xchange server and supports Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007, and the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010.
The company says it developed OXtender 2 for MS Outlook with Munich-based VIPcom, an Open-Xchange Technology Partner and Messaging Application Programming Interface protocol specialist.
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