[hosting-newsletter-en] ​Hosting Newsletter November 2009

[Newsletter OX Hosted Edition EN]

Dear Friends and Partners of Open-Xchange,

Welcome to the Open-Xchange Hosting Newsletter.
Here is this month´s news at a glance.

1. Dotster Provides Users with Open-Xchange
2. Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009
3. Cisco Launches WebEx mail
4. Unlocking the Cloud Means Open Data
5. Open-Xchange Partner Summit
6. Tips and Tricks: Importing holiday calendars into Open-Xchange
 


1. Dotster Provides Users with Open-Xchange

Dotster has established itself among the world's largest domain
name registrars with more than 3 million domain holdings under
management and servicing hundreds of thousands of customers
worldwide. “With Open-Xchange, we offer our customers business-class
e-mail and PIM functionality at no additional charge,” said Clint Page,
CEO of Dotster. “Through the free webmail offering, our customers
can get to know the benefits of Open-Xchange without any obligation
and, if they want, go to a complete groupware solution and mobile
solution at any time.”
http://www.open-xchange.com/en/node/936


2. Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009

Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach
$7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of
$6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show
consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will
total over $14 billion for the enterprise application markets.
Collaboration is the leading category with 30 percent of the
overall SaaS market.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1223818


3. Cisco Launches WebEx Mail

This is obviously a direct service from Cisco's WebEx brand,
leaving Service Providers and Resellers out in the cold. This
adds juice to the pressures on Service Providers, Channel
Partners and other Industry players in the business email markets.
http://www.open-xchange.com/en/node/931/


4. Unlocking the Cloud Means Open Data

Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, shares his thoughts on OSTATIC
about what it would take to make cloud services more reliable
and trustworthy.
http://ostatic.com/blog/unlocking-the-cloud-means-open-data


5. Open-Xchange Partner Summit 

On October 8th the Open-Xchange community met for the first time
with great success -- to discuss, entertain ideas, exchange
experiencesand to increase their know-how. More than 120
participants attended at the Executive Lounge at the
Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne. To get pictures and
impressions of the Summit, please visit
http://www.open-xchange.com/en/partnersummit


6. Tips and Tricks: Importing holiday calendars into Open-Xchange

If you would like to have public holidays in your calendar,
you can import public holiday calendars in iCal format
into Open-Xchange.
http://www.open-xchange.com/wiki/index.php?title=Import_holidays



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http://twitter.com/openexchange.
We welcome your feedback.


Best regards,

Open-Xchange Hosting Team
mailto: hosting at open-xchange.com


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