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Dovecot IMAP Server’s market share has grown again

Timo Sirainen on Mar 31, 2020

The results of this year’s Open Email Survey (2020) are now in. Even in a year of IT consolidation the Open-Xchange Dovecot IMAP Server’s market share has grown again. After scanning the Internet and detecting ne...

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THE SECOND WAVE OF INNOVATION FOR THE INTERNET

Rafael Laguna on Feb 1, 2020

Transcript: Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, speaks to Julia Janssen-Holldiek from the CSA about innovation, open source systems, and Hotel California.

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Data Privacy Day: Selected Quotes and Insights from the Industry Leaders- P...

Sudipto Ghosh on Jan 29, 2020

28 January is celebrated as the International Data Privacy Day. CCPA came into effect from 1 January 2020. China implemented the Password Law from the start of the new year. These recent developments reveal the h...

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Open-Xchange reveals first COI based app to the world

Robert Virkus on Dec 16, 2019

In Madrid, at the Open-Xchange summit, on the 17th October 2019, CEO Rafael Laguna and COI Product Manager Robert Virkus stood on stage and demonstrated the first-ever COI based app. The OX COI Messenger app was ...

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Defending the Open Internet Through Interoperability

Vittorio Bertola on Dec 5, 2019

Last week in Berlin, the stakeholders of the net met at the annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum to discuss the problems that affect the Internet, ranging from hate speech to the concentration of onlin...

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What’s next for the open web

Rafael Laguna on Nov 6, 2019

Rafael Laguna, Katharina Borchert and Donie O'Sullivan The dream of an open web, where all are free to participate, is one that many still hope to achieve. However, it's a dream that is struggling to become a rea...

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New survey reveals UK consumers more likely to ditch Facebook services than...

The Editorial Team on Oct 17, 2019

Open-Xchange examines UK consumer trust in the technology sector 33% of Britons expressed a desire to stop using Facebook-owned services; 11% of UK consumers expressed a desire to stop using Huawei products 63% o...

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We can’t rely on venture capital to fuel moonshot innovation

Rafael Laguna on Sep 29, 2019

For investors, fighting climate change or disease will not have the immediate link to profitability that let’s say, urbanization had. When Western nations needed to alleviate rural poverty, urbanization was a sol...

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The "Sign-in with Facebook" problem and the open source solution

Vittorio Bertola on Sep 16, 2019

An effort has started to create an identity management platform that works just like those of the OTTs, but empowers the user rather than the provider, protects the user’s privacy and digital freedoms, and is bas...

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Sorry Facebook, you can’t claw back the public’s trust with a pop-up café

Rafael Laguna on Aug 16, 2019

Facebook has announced that it will be opening pop-up Facebook Cafés across the United Kingdom, in an apparent bid to improve its image in the wake of numerous privacy scandals. The Facebook Café will launch in L...

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