back to article Open-Xchange builds anti Oracle stack after server M&A splurge

Open-Xchange, a maker of web apps that some of the biggest telcos and hosts rebrand as their own, has bought up open-source mailserver firm Dovecot and DNS server outfit PowerDNS. There are lots of possible reasons for this burst of activity, the most obvious being Open-Xchange's desire to offer its service provider customers …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    UM

    The dual license open-xchange means you can't provide a paid for service using the free version, does this mean Dovecot and PowerDNS will go that way too?

    1. Rafael Laguna

      Re: UM

      No.

    2. Vic

      Re: UM

      The dual license open-xchange means you can't provide a paid for service using the free version

      Says who?

      Given that a chunk of what they're shipping is GPL, to try to put such a restriction on the code would remove their own right to distribute.

      Vic.

  2. Hans 1
    Boffin

    https://www.suse.com/company/press/2002/10/openexchange.html

    First time I heard of OpenExchange was in 2002 - I tried it back then and it was pretty impressive stuff.

    I imagine it is much better now.

    From what I saw it had email, calendering, and various other productivity functionality ... this was in 2002. It was, at the time, way ahead of what OWA 2010 is now.

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