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Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, increased its number of users to more than 15 million people worldwide – an increase of 80 percent in 2009. Company adds 7 million users, introduces social networks integration, mobility features
The results come from deals with software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers including Versatel (Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider with 1.3 million e-mail accounts), Dotster (among the world’s largest domain name registrars servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide), NameCheap (a leader in domain name registration and web hosting with 1 million domains), Nexen-Alterway Hosting (the French leader in open source web hosting) and NTS (a leading distributor in the Asian market). With the exception of NTS – the first distributor moving into the SaaS market in Asia – all the others have replaced their web mail with Open-Xchange and are selling additional groupware and mobility capabilities – providing additional benefits along with revenue opportunities for the SaaS providers.
“While we’ve made tremendous progress in sales and development in 2009, we expect to build on that momentum with a goal of reaching 26 million users in 2010,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “There are very exciting deals in our sales pipeline and more social network features coming to our collaboration software. We’re really seeing the pace accelerating as we look ahead to next year.”
The company’s software is also used on-premise by some 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide — including the addition in 2009 of a large Japanese retail bank and the University Hospital Cologne (in Germany).
In 2009, the company introduced an innovative groupware concept called “Social OX,” which can aggregate e-mail from Google, Yahoo and many others into a folder in Open-Xchange, plus automatically add and incorporate contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing to the Open-Xchange address book.
With availability of the Open-Xchange OXtender for Business Mobility in 2009, users can receive push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including iphone ,BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.
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