Don´t blame Heartbleed on Open Source
By Peter Ganten, CEO, Univention Thanks to the Heartbleed bug a growing number of people in the media claim a precarious situation of Open Source projects leading to problems like Heartbleed. I think...
View ArticleThe Future of Communications Open: Is SIP dead or not?
By Stijn Nijhuis, CEO, Voiceworks What’s happening in the telecom industry? The recent statement of Microsoft, during an Enterprise Connect panel on UC federation caused a big buzz in our industry....
View ArticleTrusted partners. Trusted services.
At the recent World Hosting Days, Julian Assange delivered a stark warning about the future of our data, and the ownership of our own digital content. “We’re losing control” was the message, and it is...
View ArticleCan WebRTC defeat the OTT?
Fixed line telecom and cable providers have been faced with the problem of being a ‘dumb pipe’ for some time now, while mobile carriers have seen profit margins grow. But in an age of 4G LTE...
View ArticleBreaking down the Internet’s walled gardens
It’s no secret to those of us in the open source community how open technology brings a necessary visibility and transparency that creates countless opportunities to improve and enhance technology....
View ArticleHave you got the message yet? The modern messaging landscape still includes...
Email, as we know it today, is just over 20 years old – and has only been in widespread use for considerably less than that. But there has been no shortage of those wishing to tell us that as a medium...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, America. Germany Might Understand Freedom Better than You
You know what? John Oliver was right: “Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf in the iTunes user agreement and you would just be, like, ‘– uh, um: agree – agree’.” It’s true. We want our...
View ArticleThe Future Of Secure Communications: A Return To The Old Fashioned Way?
The infinite monkey theorem predicts that if a monkey hit the keys on a typewriter randomly for an endless amount of time, it would eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare. Should the...
View ArticleHow has the IaaS market changed and how does it impact hosters?
Guest Blog by Phil Shih, Structure Research The competitive IaaS landscape continues to change and this has had an indelible impact on the hosting market. We take a look at the recent movements and...
View ArticleOpen Letter to All Open-Xchange Partners
By Zafar Khan, CEO, RPost This will be RPost´s first year participating in the OX user conference and our team looks forward to meeting with those attendees that are looking to ensure their email...
View ArticleTechnology from the German Rainforest takes it to the Silicon Valley old boys
By Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange It’s humbling for any company to be compared to industry behemoths that dominate a particular sector. When a relatively small software company from Germany is...
View ArticleUser Centricity – Or: How to package for sex, drugs and rock’n’roll
by Maurice Hofmann, VP OX Performance Program – The Americas In the software world, feature lists still dominate the packaging meetings. How many features do I put in which package? Are there too...
View ArticleSpinning a web of words: 25 years of change and staying the same
By Chris Latterell, VP Marketing, Open-Xchange 1989 was a pretty monumental year. The biggest story of the year was undoubtedly the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, an event which we’re celebrating...
View ArticlePowering the World´s Email as a Proud Member of the OX Family
By Timo Sirainen, Chief Architect Dovecot As we continue to help customers migrate to world-class IMAP solutions for optimal email storage, our mission just got stronger as we have become a new...
View ArticleReflections on SXSW: High Hopes for the Internet’s Future
Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange Last week at SXSW Interactive in Austin, I had the honor not only of listening to and meeting with many of today’s top technology leaders and innovators, I also had the...
View ArticlePower-ing up
By Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange 2015 is rapidly becoming a defining year for OX. As you may have seen, last week we joined forces with Finnish company Dovecot Oy in a merger that makes us a global...
View ArticleDNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet
By Bert Hubert, CEO PowerDNS PowerDNS and Dovecot joined the Open-Xchange family at WorldWostingDay 2015 in Rust Invented in the early 1980s, the Domain Name System (DNS) has been one of the most...
View ArticleQ&A: The New OX Family
It has now been two months since we merged with Dovecot and PowerDNS to provide our customers with a completely open-source communications portfolio. It’s been a privilege and a pleasure to see all...
View ArticleObama apologises to Hollande: If the timing hadn’t been so funny, it would...
By Thomas Bioud, Open-Xchange VP Sales France and Benelux The phone call that Barack Obama made last week to François Hollande to tell him that the American intelligence services are no longer tapping...
View ArticleForget inadequate tools and plugins like Mailvelope – OX Guard is the...
Peer Heinlein, CEO of mailbox.org, explains why he thinks OX Guard will help more providers deliver secure PGP email encryption for more users. When we recently announced that mailbox.org has become...
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