Rafael Laguna

Rafael Laguna
Co-founder and former CEO of Open-Xchange

Auf Wiedersehen Safe Harbor

Rafael Laguna on Oct 13, 2015

In its infancy, the ideas of privacy and open access were of little concern for the first computer scientists who used the collection of connected networks that would go on to become the Internet. But since then ...

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OX awarded ‘top player’ status in Radicati 2015 Market Quadrant

Rafael Laguna on Aug 13, 2015

By Rafael Laguna, CEO Open-Xchange

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Lets keep the Internet free while making money! Join us at the OX Summit, O...

Rafael Laguna on Aug 10, 2015

It’s just twenty-five years since Tim Berners-Lee created the web as a free network for communicating and sharing knowledge. Right now that dream is under the greatest threat we’ve ever seen. We’re seeing unprece...

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How to weave SaaS into your legacy business model

Rafael Laguna on Jul 27, 2015

With public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) giants like Amazon garnering all the attention, you’d be forgiven for thinking that’s where the cloud money lies. In reality though, the goldmine is buried elsewhere...

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Will Easy Encryption Fix The Internet?

Rafael Laguna on Jul 20, 2015

Internet services providers have some thinking to do when it comes to the topic of encryption. Does encryption help you to build your business or does its complexity drive customers away? There’s an increasing aw...

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Tear down this wall, Mr Zuckerberg!

Rafael Laguna on Jun 9, 2015

It’s now a few weeks since Facebook introduced updates to their API and its corresponding features, that prevents us from displaying the Facebook stream for our customers in the OX App Suite portal.

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The Digital Single Market – More needs to be done.

Rafael Laguna on May 12, 2015

The EU Commission’s desire to create a Digital Single Market is a bold move, which could boost the economy by 415bn Euros a year. But at what cost to us? An open market, yes. Trading our privacy for the privilege...

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Power-ing up

Rafael Laguna on Mar 24, 2015

2015 is rapidly becoming a defining year for OX. As you may have seen, last week we joined forces with Finnish company Dovecot Oy in a merger that makes us a global leader in open source software – from email bac...

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Ohhh nooo, They did it again! API not A-OK

Rafael Laguna on Mar 13, 2015

We hate to be the bearers of bad news. Recently, we had to inform customers that the subscription capability of the OX App Suite contacts module that pulled data from users’ Facebook accounts, had to be disabled ...

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Reflections on SXSW: High Hopes for the Internet’s Future

Rafael Laguna on Mar 3, 2015

Last week at SXSW Interactive in Austin, I had the honor not only of listening to and meeting with many of today’s top technology leaders and innovators, I also had the chance to speak on two panels focused on te...

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