That should do it... A cutdown version of SKYRiX is what powered the groupware part of SuSE Linux Email Server 3.x - tad buggy yes, but a little open source reviewing and this should be a very, very neat solution...

-- Original Message -- Reply-To: announce@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:17:12 +0800 To: announce@openoffice.org From: Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline> Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenGroupware.org: SKYRiX OPEN SOURCES ITS GROUPWARE SERVER

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW PROJECT FORMED: OpenGroupware.org, AS SKYRiX OPEN SOURCES ITS GROUPWARE SERVER July 10, 2003 - OpenGroupware.org ('OGo') project announces its formation and the release today to the worldwide open sou

ce development community of its groupware server software. The software provides the server components

necessary for full office collaboration with the OpenOffice.org suite and various other Linux and Windows groupware clients. OGo software runs

n Linux and Solaris (www.OpenGroupware.org)

The OGo project is a fully independent open-source project, but will inter-operate with the OpenOffice.org software and other similarly open clients via open standards. The OGo software is based i

itially on the contribution of the code of SKYRiX 4.1 Groupware Server, a mature product that has been in development

for 7 years, and one of the earliest groupware products for the Linux operating system. The contributor, SKYRIX Software AG, is

ell known in Germany as a leader in Linux groupware (www.SKYRiX.com).

"We are extremely excited to form OpenGroupware.org and to collaborate with OpenOffice.org to serve the open source community worldwide," said Jens Enders, president and CEO

of SKYRIX Software AG. "By configuring the OpenGroupware.org server together [after install] with the OpenOffice.org

office suite and other leading groupware clients, our customers will be able to implement a comprehensive and integrated collabor

tion environment wholly composed of free software."

The OGo software provides document sharing capabilities for OpenOffice.org documents and will enable users of MS Outlook (97/2000/XP), Ximian Evolution, Mozilla Calendar, OOo Glow (OpenOffice

org Groupware Project's client product), Apple's iCal and other standards-based groupware clients

to collaborate. OGo software will enable users to share calendar, address book and e-mail information; they can communicate via instant messaging

share folders, exchange documents, track changes, share a whiteboard, and browse the Web

all at the same time -- all upon open Internet standards and without paying or managing cumbersome licensing fees. Says Gary Frederick, Leader of the Ope

Office.org Groupware Project: "Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange replacement. OGo is important

because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. It's the end of a decade-long effort to 'map' all the key infrastruct

re and standard desktop applications to free software. OGo offers users a free

solution for collaboration and document management that, despite being free of charge, will far surpass the quality and level of collaboration found on Windows (thro

gh integration of MS Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint). Today marks the completion of 'OpenStack'."

Adds Stu Green, Managing Director of Open Source Professional Services, "The release of OGo means the OpenOffice.org suite is ready for the

enterprise complete with full-featured and mature groupware solutions. These capabilities once and for all show how free software betters proprietary solutions that require licensing payments on both the client and server sides. Also, OGo provi

es multiple file format filters for creating, storing and sharing data in an open and flexible fashion. It's

fees and

possible now to completely avoid proprietary file formats and non-standard XML throughout the desktop stack and infrastructure. Licensing license management are gone. And with OOo + OGo, no remote activation is required." (www.OSPSnet.com) OGo has extensive and broad support for XML based APIs:an XML-RPC 'Webservice' API, support for SunONE XML based WCAP, support for

HTTPMail/MS Exchange-based WebDAV, and finally for iCalendar files in XML

notation (according to the xCal drafts). Given the XML based storage format of OpenOffice.org the OGo document storage will be able to perform feature rich team based colla

oration and content management. OGo uses a WebDAV-accessible relational database management system to make document

storage accessible from the OpenOffice.org office suite. OGo is licensed under the open source dual licenses, Lesser General Publ

c License (LGPL) and the General Public License (GPL). Libraries and components are licensed under the terms of the LGPL and applications are

edistributed at no cost. For developers, the

licensed under the GPL. For users, this means in part that the OGo software can be used, improved and licensing implications vary depending on the type of code contribution that is contemplated. If you would like to join OpenGroupware.org to contribute code, development or marketing resources to the

project, please contact marketing@OpenGroupware.org.

About OpenGroupware.org Mission: To create, as a community, the leading open source groupware server to integrate with the leading open source office suite products and all the leading gr

upware clients running across all major platforms, and to provide access to all functionality and data through open XML-based interfaces and APIs (www.OpenGroupware.org).

About SKYRiX SKYRIX Software AG, the contributor of the OGo code, is a

eading developer of Linux based groupware solutions in Germany. The product OGo is based on, SKYRiX 4.1 Groupware Server, is a mature solution being in development for

about seven years. OGo consists of about 600,000 lines of object oriented C

ode and about 100,000 lines of reusable Web components (www.SKYRiX.com).

The original author of the OpenGroupware.org reference server software was MDlink GmbH, founded as an Internet service provider (ISP) in Germany in 1994. The company starte

development on the LSOffice application server in about 1996 to extend it's Internet offerings with a powerful

collaboration

ny, SKYRIX Software AG, was

-going development of

platform usable over the Internet. Some years later LSOffice was renamed to SKYRiX 3 and finally in 2000 a separate comp formed to concentrate on the further development of the product. About OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community of developers, users and marketers responsible for the o the OpenOffice.org product. The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through o

en-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice.org 1.1

runs on FreeBDS, Windows (98/2000/XP), Linux (x86 & PowerPC), Mac OS X and Solaris; while ports for other operating systems and hardware platforms, including IRIX, HP-UX, Tr

64, Linux (Alpha), Linux (ARM), Linux (Itanium2) and others, are in various stages of development. OpenOffice.org 1.1, soon

available in over 60 native languages, is written in C++ and has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Pu

lic License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open source licenses. The founder

and sponsor of the OpenOffice.org project is Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun markets an office suite based on the OpenOffice.org code called StarOff

ce. Download OpenOffice.org 1.1 at http://www.openoffice.org.

About OpenOffice.org Glow Project Glow is an innovative OpenOffice.org project to create a rich full-featured and integrated groupware client for communication and collaboration to

ssaging; P2P and web whiteboard features are

complement the OpenOffice.org office suite. Glow is written using Java which has enabled the rapid development and release of the first internal milestone supporting core calendaring functions, both online and offline. Contacts, mail, instant m planned. Glow is designed to integrate with and complement OpenOffice.org but can also be used as a standalone cross-platform application running everywhere that J2SE does (http://groupware.openoffice.

rg/glow/).

Links: Evolution http://ximian.com/products/evolution/ OpenGroupware.org http://www.opengroupware.org OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org Groupware Project http://groupware.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org Glo

http://groupware.openoffice.org/glow/ OSPS http://www.OSPSnet.com Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ MS Outlook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/outannoy/ SKYRiX http://www.skyrix.com/en/products/index.xhtml StarOffice http://www.sun.com/staroffice S n Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com

MEDIA RELEASE CONTACTS: Helge Hess SKYRIX Software AG helge.hess@opengroupware.org Gary Frederick OpenOffice.org Groupware Project garyfreder@openoffice.org Sam Hiser OpenOffice.org Marketing Proje

t swhiser@openoffice.org

PUBLICITY CONTACT: Jacqueline McNally Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Tel: +61 8 9474 3021 (GMT +0800) Fax: +61 8 9474 3405 jacqueline@openoffice.org -------------------

------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help@openoffice.org