All That You Wanted To Know About Open Xchange

Open Xchange server is basically an open source project that is sponsored by Open- X change Inc. All collaboration software like mails and calendars are developed using the server. Products that are created based on Open Xchange servers are marketed under the brand name Open-XChange and other names such as MailXchange, Network Solutions Business Email etc. The server is said to be a part of Lisog open source stack initiative.

The server is also partly an open source collaboration software stack that has features like web 2.0 email interfaces, contact list and other task management functions. The document management sharing options are also provided with it. The server has free property environment and standards such as the famous Microsoft outlook and Apple Isync.

The latest server provides social networking capabilities giving publish and subscribe capabilities to the user. The service usually is on the backend in order to maintain the connection as active even after the user goes offline. Such abilities are available at preview server that consists of all the recent developments from Open – X change.

The technology consists of a Java- based backend executed as OSGi bundle and a frontend implementation in Javascript. The backend server is usually deployed as a scalable server and with fault tolerant clusters giving million virtual instances of Open-Xchange. The backend has protocols for communication and configuration with the frontend. Option of encrypted communication between clients and server has also been made possible recently.

The user interface or the frontend comprises of a non-open source AJAX that enables independency of operating systems and helps in installation and deployment through web browser. The end users can also access the server through client software like Microsoft outlook and Mozilla thunderbird.

Apart from the above listed uses, Open Xchange is a server that helps in portal view, team view, tasks lists, synchronization of Mac OS X applications through CardDAV and CalDAV and in editing of external E mail account like Yahoo and Google.