(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange (www.open-xchange.com) announced on Wednesday it has released Open-Xchange Server 6.1, which consolidates social network communication in one central application.
Open-Xchange 6.10 introduces a new groupware concept called “Social OX,” which aggregates email and contact information in a single location.
As a result, users no long have to resort to time-consuming searching, and they can gain “access to information anywhere, anytime and with any device”, says the company.
“Social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo and Xing are great tools for business networks. And, Googlemail and Yahoo free mail accounts have changed our way of communicating,” says Juergen Geck, CTO of Open-Xchange. “Before we end up in confusion with lots of email accounts and address books, Open-Xchange overcomes the barriers between the variety of desktop and web applications, where we store and handle our multiple addresses, appointments, tasks and documents.”
Open-Xchange 6.10 has many new features, including integration of any kind of existing webmail accounts into a folder in Open-Xchange, contact details from social networks will be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book, and the ability for users to share their data with other users in a controlled way without sending the information via email.
The open-source company is currently offering Social OX for a free trial at its special preview website. http://ox.io.
Open-Xchange is installed by more than 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide, while Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is used by more than 10 million users worldwide as hosted business-class email, along with personal information management, and full groupware.
In November, Open-Xchange closed a venture investment of $9 million, which it will use for software development and business expansion in the US, Europe and emerging markets.
