Netline Opens E-Shop for Open-Xchange

OLPE, Germany, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Netline Internet Service announced today availability of Open-Xchange Server 5, the industry’s first fully supported, modular, platform agnostic open-source collaboration platform in an easy-to-use online store backed by asknet.

Open-Xchange enables easy migration and integration to an open source environment — allowing IT administrators to create and implement killer-apps without changing existing infrastructure components, i.e. databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or web-servers. End users can keep their favorite mail and groupware clients, such as Outlook, and also open source clients such as Kontact.

“Since we launched Open-Xchange just last week, we’ve received hundreds of requests for the product,” said Frank Hoberg, chief executive officer, Netline Internet Service. “The new e-shop will make it faster and easier to get up and running on Open-Xchange.”

Asknet built and now hosts Netline’s eCommerce site located at http://www.openexchange.com/EN/shop/. To support site operations and the growth of Netline’s online business, asknet is also providing order and transaction management, fraud prevention, 24×7 customer service and support, and access to joint promotional opportunities through its eCommerce network of more than 500 clients and partners.

“We are very pleased to partner with Netline Internet Service, enabling the Open-Xchange Server 5 download through asknet’s online store,” said Dietmar Waudig, Chief Executive Officer, asknet Inc. “Companies search for a reliable eCommerce platform along with a user friendly and uncomplicated buying processes. asknet looks forward to helping Netline to grow their online sales revenue and to providing its customers with a localized and easy-to-use online shopping experience.”

About Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange Server, the engine behind Novell’s award-winning SUSE LINUX Open-Xchange Server, maintains the same architecture, but with added and enhanced features in a more flexibly designed, platform-agnostic package.

Open-Xchange enables users to store appointments, contacts, tasks, emails, bookmarks, documents — and many more elements — and share them with other users. This environment can be accessed via any web browser — as well as multiple fat clients like Outlook, Palm, KDE Kontact, Apple’s iCAL, Konqueror, Mozilla Calendar, and more.

Pricing and Availability

Open-Xchange Server 5 for Novell’s SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server is available immediately at http://www.openexchange.com/ and through a list of select partners. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 will be available at the end of May.

Open-Xchange Server 5 Small Business Server Edition (5-25 users) — including one-year maintenance, administration interfaces, initial installation support, Outlook and Palm connectors and a five-year guarantee, is $295 for the first five users. An annual maintenance subscription fee for additional users is $25 per user.

Open-Xchange Server 5 Advanced Server Edition (25+ users) for both Red Hat and Novell’s SUSE LINUX — including one-year maintenance, administration interfaces, initial installation support, Outlook and Palm connectors and a five-year guarantee is $850. An annual maintenance subscription fee for additional users is $25 per user.

About Netline

Netline Internet Service GmbH is a market leader in Linux-based groupware, collaboration, and messaging in the SMB segment. Netline’s Groupware, which is based on the Netline Java Application Server, is the core engine of Novell’s award-winning SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server. Since 1996 Netline — based in Olpe, Germany — has been developing java-based, three-tier web applications for the small business market. Netline is a licensed reseller of Openexchange Inc.

About asknet:

asknet Inc. is one of the leading global providers of outsourced electronic software sales and distribution services (ESD). The company helps software and other digital media publishers to maximize their online sales by offering hosted eCommerce sites that combine flexibility, integration and transparency. asknet focuses on fast growing and already established software publishers that demand individualized service–companies that have outgrown in-house and one-size-fits-all offerings. From its own high-availability data center, asknet operates more than a hundred end-to-end eCommerce sites that promote, sell, license, distribute and maintain/upgrade software and digital media worldwide. Customers include ACD Systems, Anonymizer, Astaro, DivX, InterVideo, Konica/Minolta, Opera, Simple Star, Steganos, TechSmith and Webroot. For more information, please visit http://www.asknet.com/?pr=openexchange.

Open-Xchange is a registered trademark of Netline Internet Service. asknet is a registered trademark of asknet, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, or registrations of their respective owners.

Netline

CONTACT: Inese Hoover, Director of Marketing, North America of asknetInc., +1-630-300-4787, inese.hoover@asknet.com; or Bill Baker of BakerCommunications Group, +1-860-350-9100, wbaker@bakercg.com, for Netline

Web site: http://www.openexchange.com/EN/shophttp://www.asknet.com/?pr=openexchange