Open-Xchange Adds Four New Partners
by Kristin Shoemaker - Dec. 10, 2008Comments (0)- Related Blog Posts
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Every sector of the tech industry, be it hardware or software oriented, offering open or closed source solutions, is feeling the economic pinch. Open-Xchange continues to weather the storm with its "software as a service" (SaaS) open source Exchange server alternative, announcing today it has added four new collaboration partners.
There is no magic formula for success in any business or economy, but Open-Xchange saw its SaaS product, the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, hit the eight million users mark this year. Though many of Open-Xchange's partners are web hosts and ISPs, there is a real appeal to the SaaS model for businesses with few IT resources who are interested in adopting a groupware solution that's open and easily managed.
Open-Xchange's new partners are a diverse group -- including Swiss ISP Dynamic-NET, and system integrators with clients in the automotive sales and health care industries, and one that even offers Open-Xchange through a virtualized server arrangement.
Open-Xchange also offers on-site collaboration products (and varying levels of support for integrating into existing servers) for businesses that are able to maintain their own groupware deployments. It seems that the current momentum (and projected numbers) for SaaS products, however, are going to play a major part in how Open-Xchange tackles the road ahead.
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