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Spinning a web of words: 25 years of change and staying the same

Chris Latterell on Nov 14, 2014

1989 was a pretty monumental year. The biggest story of the year was undoubtedly the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, an event which we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of this week. It symbolized a new, open ...

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Appserver – A proxying middleware for App Suite front-end development

Malte Timmermann on Nov 13, 2014

Earlier this year, we decided to publish appserver to the npm registry as a node module, so other developers can easily install it. We also put it on github, to allow easy contribution. The functionality is tight...

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OX Documents - Roundtrip and Operations

Malte Timmermann on Nov 13, 2014

OX Documents is an addition to OX App Suite Core, and provides apps for editing Text and Spreadsheet documents. The natively supported document formats are the XML formats from Microsoft Office (OOXML) and from O...

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User Centricity – Or: How to package for sex, drugs and rock’n’roll

Maurice Hofmann on Nov 7, 2014

In the software world, feature lists still dominate the packaging meetings. How many features do I put in which package? Are there too many or too few features? How are those features distinguished from others? T...

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What is OX App Suite?

Malte Timmermann on Nov 4, 2014

Product and License OX App Suite is a web based collaboration software. The core product provides modules for email, calendar, tasks and online storage. Additional modules for editing documents, for encrypted ema...

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Open-Xchange Techblog

Malte Timmermann on Nov 2, 2014

Welcome to the Open-Xchange Techblog!

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Technology from the German Rainforest takes it to the Silicon Valley old bo...

Rafael Laguna on Oct 23, 2014

It’s humbling for any company to be compared to industry behemoths that dominate a particular sector. When a relatively small software company from Germany is identified along with Microsoft and Oracle as a ‘Top ...

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The Google Apps Trap: Should your customers’ data be subject to Google’s te...

Chris Latterell on Oct 15, 2014

In 2014, there are more than five million businesses using Google Apps, a staggering figure for something that is essentially a consumer product with very few modifications for business use. Everyone knows that G...

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Leave your doors unlocked please, the data police are coming.

Rafael Laguna on Oct 14, 2014

Depending on who you listen to, encrypting your data can be a good thing, or it can be a bad thing.

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Migration – Cover your bases!

Maurice Hofmann on Oct 2, 2014

During my talk at #OXS14 (here is the video) I spoke about how user migration presents an opportunity to engage with your user base. I talked a lot about the psychology and the emotional aspects that we need to f...

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