Kolab Groupware Solution
This is the server of the Kolab Groupware Solution,
a Free Software
Personal Information Management (PIM) solution developed by the
Kolab.org Community. Any installation of
the Kolab Groupware Solution would normally include one or more of these
servers, in combination with a
variety of clients for its users.
If you are interested in the technology, you can read more about
it on the dedicated technology page.
Why Kolab?
There is a wide variety of reasons why Kolab should be your choice.
Several of them have been put together for different target groups in the
Handouts for
the Kolab Groupware Solution by Kolab Systems.
To summarize just some points, Kolab is your solution, if
- you want a solution that seamlessly integrates into your existing environment;
- you want full control over your data, with all the convenience of the cloud;
- you have elevated security needs for your data;
- you have a very large installation, or want to reduce your hardware footprint;
- you have to operate in diverse environments and installations;
- strategic issues are important to you, e.g. you need sovereignty of the software you deploy;
- your users should be fully productive whether they are on- or offline;
- you want the flexibility to create solutions for your specialised needs;
- you want Free Software/Open Source,
but also want the professional support without having
to resort to proprietary lock-in.
More Information
Warranties & Professional Support
This is the Kolab.org Development Edition of the Kolab Groupware Server.
It is provided by Kolab Systems as fully Free Software
and you can use it to the fullest extent and any purpose. There are no license
costs or other obligations other than those set forth in the respective
Free Software licenses of the various components. There are no warranties
or guarantees of any kind, nor is there any guaranteed support.
You are running this software entirely at your own risk.
There is a wide variety of commercial support options and warranties available
by Kolab Systems AG and its
network of partners, the Kolab Enterprise Community. This support comes with
access to the additionally quality assured and hardened Kolab Enterprise
edition, which like the Kolab.org edition is fully available as Free Software,
so has all the advantages of the Kolab.org Edition and is free of hidden lock-in.
Kolab Systems AG will only provide very limited community assistance
for the Kolab.org Edition on a case-by-case basis, but with no guaranteed response times,
as availability permits, and at rates that may be adjusted due to the work load
at the time of the request.
It is strongly recommended that for mission-critical professional deployments
of the Kolab Groupware Solution you use Kolab Enterprise with an SLA.
|
This edition |
Kolab Enterprise |
| Support channels |
Wiki & public mailing lists only |
Kolab Systems Ticketing |
| Guaranteed response times |
NO |
YES |
| Access to Kolab Enterprise repositories |
NO |
YES |
| Security Updates |
NO |
YES |
| Warranties |
NO |
YES |
| Access to custom versions |
NO |
YES |
| Discounts on Kolab services |
NO |
YES |
| Direct access to Kolab developers |
NO |
YES |
Kolab Systems provides an overview of all available
Service Level Agreements (SLA).
To upgrade your installation to Kolab Enterprise, please contact
sales@kolabsys.com or visit their
web page.
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Founded in Zürich in 2010, Kolab Systems AG
is the global leader in Kolab Technology. Together with its partners
in the Kolab Enterprise Community, Kolab Systems provides quality assurance,
integration, support, training, certification of individuals and third-party products,
as well as ongoing development for the Kolab Groupware Solution.
The strong partnering model and a highly competent enterprise community provides
users of the Kolab Groupware Solution with the right level of professional consulting,
support and warranties to enable productivity and collaboration.
Looking for professional support for your Kolab Groupware Solution?
Kolab Systems provides a wide range of Service Level Agreements (SLA)
which range from fully self-supported installations to maintained installations with
reaction times as low as 1 hour. These are provided exclusively on Kolab Systems' Kolab Enterprise
edition. To upgrade your installation to Kolab Enterprise, please contact
sales@kolabsys.com or visit their
web page.
Our Development Partners
In continuously improving all parts of the Kolab Groupware Solution,
Kolab Systems is working closely with development partners, such as (in alphabetical order):
Thank you for being part of this awesome community!
-
If you want to join the community, please go to
- kolab.org and wiki.kolab.org.
-
+
If you want to join the community, please go to kolab.org.
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Kolab Groupware Solution - Technologies
This is the server of the Kolab Groupware Solution. It is
Free Software
developed by the Kolab Community,
which works in collaboration with and as part of many other communities
and projects to bring you this software.
For this server, Free Software communities and projects that the Kolab Community is a part of and builds upon include:
For the clients, Free Software communities and projects that the Kolab Community is a part of and builds upon include:
History & Credits
In 2010, Intevation, KDAB,
Dr. Paul Adams and
Georg Greve worked together to re-launch
the professional support of the Kolab Groupware Solution into the Kolab Systems AG,
which took the place of the Kolab-Konsortium.
Kolab Systems together with its partner network, the Kolab Enterprise Community,
has since been the primary facilitator of the Kolab Community, including for
the provision of infrastructure, and the focal point for further development
of the Kolab Groupware Solution, e.g. for inclusion of ActiveSync support in version 2.3
of the server, or for native packaging on the various platforms.
-If you want to join the community, please visit http://wiki.kolab.org
-and http://kolab.org.
+If you want to join the community, please visit http://kolab.org.
History before 2010
The Kolab project owes a great deal of thanks to the people of the
OpenPKG project. OpenPKG allowed Kolab to run on many
diverse platforms in a reliable and predictable manner, by providing a common, easy-to-install,
cross-platform base on which to build the server.
To use all Kolab2 features you need an interoperable client. The KDE Kolab Client was
the first such client to be developed and is still considered the reference platform
for others to follow. The KDE groupware component Kontact can act as Kolab2 Client.
Many thanks to the KDE Project for providing such
a powerful base on which to build this client solution.
Users of Outlook on Microsoft Windows are able to use a proprietary plug-in to inter-operate
with the Kolab server. For Kolab2 the preferred plug-in is the
Toltec Plug-in by Radley Network Technologies CC.
Radley has worked closely with the Kolab community to help develop the Kolab2 storage format.
A list of additional Outlook plug-ins that provide interoperability with the Kolab server
is maintained on the Kolab website.
There was also a web-based client
in development which provides full groupware functionality to mobile users through a web interface.
It allows users to access their email, calendars, tasks, etc. from anywhere in the world,
by simply connecting through a standard web browser. The web client would not have been
possible without the excellent Roundcube project on which to build.
As Kolab is a Free Software project, anyone can help to extend the functionality of the software.
An active community has developed around the software with many people throughout the world contributing.
The project was originally started in 2002 by a joint-venture of three companies:
erfrakon (design, architecture and server);
Intevation (project management) and
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult (client).
Code Fusion cc joined the project soon after the original Kolab1 server was released.
Its developers are primarily responsible for an updated engine (which forms the base
of the Kolab2 server), the web client, as well as contributing to development of the Kolab2 storage format.
Kudos
Principal contributors of the Kolab Groupware Solution are (in alphabetical order):
- Alain Abbas
- Till Adam
- Dr. Paul Adams
- Stuart Bingë
- Stephan Buys
- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
- Tassilo Erlewein
- David Faure
- Achim Frank
- Michel Boyer de la Giroday
- Georg Greve
- Torsten Grote
- Steffen Hansen
- Bernhard Herzog
- Martin Konold
- Marc Mutz
- Jeroen van Meeuwen
- Bernhard Reiter
- Lutz Rogowski
- Bogomil Shopov
- Bo Thorsen
- Jan-Oliver Wagner
- Gunnar Wrobel
- Christoph Wickert
- Karl-Heinz Zimmer
- Romain Pokrzywka
- ...and anyone we forgot. Please let us know at
devel@lists.kolab.org so we can add you to this list.
