Community Edition: Current Status?

[Adrian von Bidder]

Hi,

I heard that a commercial (not hosted) version with the new Ajax frontend is
not available yet.

What's the status of the community edition? I saw some rather gloomy
comments in the list archive, about some people dropping OX in favor of
Kolab or eGroupWare.

We'd need to auth against the existing LDAP directory (current commercial
OX) and we'd need to migrate the current data (currently postgres). Also,
SyncML is a must (Treo 680, Nokia E61 and some Windows Mobile Smartphones
in use.) I'm not set for or against any platform - Debian (etch) would be
nice, but we're running SLES, too, so that's a viable platform as well.
Likewise the DB: PostgreSQL and MySQL are in use anyway, so changing the db
is not a problem.

Not strictly required, but still... Is the administrative frontend included
in the community edition?

Also just to satisfy my curiosity: how many parties (outside OpenXchange
Inc.) are actively contributing to OX?

cheers
-- vbi

[Kauss, Martin]

Post by Adrian von Bidder
Hi,

Hi.

Post by Adrian von Bidder
I heard that a commercial (not hosted) version with the new Ajax frontend is
not available yet.

Thats true, but the community edition is available with the new Ajax frontend.

Post by Adrian von Bidder
What's the status of the community edition? I saw some rather gloomy
comments in the list archive, about some people dropping OX in favor of
Kolab or eGroupWare.
We'd need to auth against the existing LDAP directory (current commercial
OX) and we'd need to migrate the current data (currently postgres). Also,
SyncML is a must (Treo 680, Nokia E61 and some Windows Mobile Smartphones
in use.) I'm not set for or against any platform - Debian (etch) would be
nice, but we're running SLES, too, so that's a viable platform as well.
Likewise the DB: PostgreSQL and MySQL are in use anyway, so changing the db
is not a problem.

There is currently no migration available from the 0.8.x to the new version. One
reason for this is that some important modules are missing (Mobile Device Support,
Projects, ...) so that only a part of the data can be migrated.

You can authenticate against an existing LDAP directoy.

Currently the new version was ported to MySQL, but should work on PostgreSQL as well.

Post by Adrian von Bidder
Not strictly required, but still... Is the administrative frontend included
in the community edition?

Yes and the backend as well.

Post by Adrian von Bidder
Also just to satisfy my curiosity: how many parties (outside OpenXchange
Inc.) are actively contributing to OX?

There are several contributors for language support, add-ins and new modules
and some more are reporting bugs and providing patches. You might want to take
a look to the 0.8.x section (Archiv) to get more details.



Greetings,

Martin Kauss

Post by Adrian von Bidder
cheers
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[Adrian von Bidder]

Post by Kauss, Martin
There is currently no migration available from the 0.8.x to the new
version.

Any known ETA?

cheers
-- vbi