Germany's Green Party Selects Open-Xchange for Advanced Open Source Collaboration

Open-Xchange Inc., the maker of the world's leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, announced today that Germany's Green Party has selected Open-Xchange Server 5 for e-mail, contacts and calendaring for its Berlin headquarters.

Open-Xchange Inc. is the leading vendor of open source collaboration software. Its flagship product, Open-Xchange Server (OX), provides the features and functionality of asynchronous collaboration software: e-mail, calendar, contacts, projects, tasks, and document sharing and interoperates with popular 'rich' clients such as Microsoft Outlook and KDE Kontact and most web browsers.

The German Green Party was formed in the late 1970s. In 1980, the party was founded on a federal level as "Die Grunen" in West Germany. It is the oldest and thus far the most politically successful of the world's many green parties. In 1989 and 1990, numerous civil rights groups in East Germany combined to form "Bundnis 90," which merged with "Die Grunen" in 1993. Bundnis 90/Die Grunen were part of the national coalition government between 1998 and October 2005.

"With Open-Xchange Server we get exactly the functionality we need, without abandoning open standards -- and this for an attractive price," said Herbert Peters, CIO of the Green headquarters in Berlin.

About Open-Xchange.org
Open-Xchange Server is one of the most active and fastest growing open source projects to date. Launched in August 2004, Open-Xchange Server now ranks number #1 on http://www.freshmeat.net for Document repositories (http://freshmeat.net/browse/1018/), Number #4 on freshmeat for Conferencing (http://freshmeat.net/browse/27/), also number #4 of all projects (39,208) in total popularity for mobile devices (http://handhelds.freshmeat.net/stats/), and #7 out of 334 groupware projects. The Open-Xchange community web site, http://www.open-xchange.org, is visited by 130,000 unique visitors each month, the GPL version of Open-Xchange Server is downloaded more than 9,000 times each month. In the Open-Xchange forum, 3650 topics are being discussed by 1650 contributors. The Open-Xchange community has contributed 27 installation guides for Open-Xchange Server on Debian, SUSE, Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake. FreeBSD and other operating systems and distributions.

About Open-Xchange Server
Open-Xchange Server 5, the commercial product launched in April 2005, is engineered for ease of installation, migration, administration, integration and use. It interoperates with virtually all web browsers and important proprietary and open source rich clients. Open-Xchange Server supports the two leading Enterprise Linux distributions, Red Hat and SUSE. Innovative connectors, OXtenders, enhance customer flexibility by using open standard APIs to integrate existing IT infrastructures, or even extend capabilities to
such as fax, VoIP, or CRM solutions.

About Open-Xchange Inc.
Open-Xchange Inc. delivers reliable and scalable groupware, collaboration, and messaging solutions. Its flagship product, Open-Xchange Server, is the market-leading collaboration server that combines best-of-breed open source software with commercial software add-ons and connectors. Open-Xchange Server is among the Top 300 most popular and most active open source projects in the world today. Open-Xchange Inc. is based in Tarrytown, NY, with offices in Olpe and Nuremberg, Germany. For more information, please visit http://www.open-xchange.com.



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