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Small business owners looking for an affordable alternative
to the Microsoft Exchange e-mail platform can look forward to a hosted,
cost-effective and feature-rich e-mail and collaboration service, from Network
Solutions and Open-Xchange.
Open-Xchange and Network Solutions have partnered to deliver a hosted e-mail
service to small- and medium-sized businesses. In the near future, Network Solutions
will offer Open-Xchange's advanced web-based personal information management
(PIM) client as an option to its customers. Based on Open-Xchange's award-winning
Smart Collaboration technology, the agreement will provide Network Solutions’
customers with highly-integrated and feature-rich e-mail, calendaring, contact
and task management, through an easy-to-use interface.
“Integrating Open-Xchange into our e-mail and hosting platform will provide our
customers with enterprise level e-mail and collaboration services at a price
small businesses can afford,” said Bill Jolly, director of product development,
Network Solutions. “This solution will provide small businesses with
access to the functionality that large businesses enjoy today. Our customers
will have the ability to easily make and receive meeting requests, share
calendars, share documents and schedule resources using a state-of-the-art
e-mail interface.”
“We are pleased to work with Network Solutions as this partnership shows how
service providers can grow their business by offering new valuable services to
their customers using open source technologies,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of
Open-Xchange. "More businesses, small and large, are looking to ‘Software
as a Service’ (SaaS) to deliver the applications they need in a cost effective
manner.”
Open-Xchange integrates e-mail, calendaring, contacts and task management with
advanced groupware features such as information management and document
sharing. Productivity is enhanced through unique teamwork features, like team
view, single-password document sharing, and shared calendars, contacts, tasks
and documents.
Users can upgrade to the full-featured groupware and document management
solution and the option of synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook will be
available. Later this year, Network Solutions will replace its existing webmail
application with the new module from Open-Xchange, which uses an innovative
Further customization by end-users will be possible through the use of web
applications including RSS feeds, local weather forecasts, sports and videos,
all of which can be integrated with a few clicks into their individual
Open-Xchange portal page that uses Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA).
Open-Xchange's document system can easily be integrated into users' desktops
using WebDAV. This means it can be viewed and used just like any other folder
in their system.
For more information on
Open-Xchange contact Glenn Rossman, glenn@bakercg.com at Baker Communications Group.
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