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Open-Xchange Inc. Releases Free Migration Tool For SUSE LINUX Openexchange Users

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 09:01 CDT

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-Xchange Inc. announced today a free migration tool for current SUSE LINUX Openexchange users to upgrade to Open-Xchange Server 5, the industry's first fully supported, modular, platform agnostic open-source collaboration platform.

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 client -- most often Outlook, but also open source clients such as KDE Kontact.

SLOX2OXtender enables smooth migration from Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange to Open-Xchange Server 5 on either Red Hat Enterprise Server or Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. Customers can see results of the new tool at Linux World Expo in San Francisco, beginning August 9 at the Open- Xchange booth number 453.

"This tool helps our customers to cost-effectively adopt Open-Xchange Server 5 as their collaboration platform of choice," said Frank Hoberg, CEO of Open-Xchange. "With the recent introduction of our product on Red Hat, plus our continued support for Novell SUSE LINUX, we are providing customers exactly what they said they wanted - the power of Open-Xchange without being tied to a single distribution."

About the SLOX2OXtender Migration Tool

SLOX2OXtender migrates users, groups, aliases, resources, e-mail, and mail folders from SUSE LINUX Openexchange to Open-Xchange Server 5. In addition, the tool can migrate all documents, bookmarks, forums and bulletin board/pinboard information.

The migration process is divided into two parts. First, all of the information is saved in a neutral format to be copied to the target system. The target system requires a SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation and a running Open-Xchange Server. Second, SLOX2OXtender is triggered and transfers all the files to the new Open-Xchange Server.

The former iSLOXfolders and the content of this folder as well as appointments, contacts and tasks will be changed during the migration process because of a different permissions handling subsystem. The system administrator has several options on how to handle these changes.

About Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange Server, the technology behind Novell's award-winning SUSE LINUX Openexchange 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.

Third party products -- open source or proprietary -- can access Open- Xchange through various interfaces such as WebDAV (XML), LDAP, iCal, and HTTP/S. Open-Xchange is based on open source daemons and services: a web (HTTP/S) server (like Apache), a servlet engine (like Tomcat), a database (like PostgreSQL), a directory server (like OpenLDAP), and a mail (both SMTP and IMAP) server (like Postfix using Cyrus); just to list a few.

The administration framework is implemented using XML-RPC (Remote Procedure Calls). Additional XML-based APIs, and support for common open standards such as ICAL, VCARD and VTODO will help developers access the core modules.

Availability

The SLOX2OXtender migration tool will be released in September. Open- Xchange partners will get the tool free of charge and can perform the migration for their customers.

About Open-Xchange Inc.

Based in Tarrytown, NY, Open-Xchange Inc. (http://www.open-xchange.com/) is the world's leading Linux-based groupware, collaboration, and messaging provider. Open-Xchange's flagship product, Open-Xchange Server, comes in a free open source version, OX 0.8, and a commercial version, Open-Xchange 5.0. Netline Internet Service GmbH, based in Germany, has been developing java- based, three-tier web applications since 1996 and continues to be the contract developer of Open-Xchange. Netline also provides the core collaboration engine for SUSE LINUX Openexchange.

Open-Xchange Inc.

CONTACT: Bill Baker of Baker Communications Group, +1-860-350-9100, orwbaker@bakercg.com

Web site: http://www.open-xchange.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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