Kolab

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Kolab Groupware Solution

Georg Greve

14 July 2011

Kolab

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Who we areMe

Georg C. F. Greve

I CEO of Kolab Systems

I Founder and Former President ofFree Software Foundation Europe

I Technology Strategist

I Private Sector Diplomat

I Software Developer

I Author

I Physicist

http://www.linkedin.com/in/GeorgGreve

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Who we areMy Company

Kolab Systems AG

I Established 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland

I Currently 10 sta�

I 4-6 developers at development partners

I Committed Free Software enterprise

Our Company Group

I KDAB, established 1999

I Intevation GmbH, established 1999

I Around 110 sta� in total

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Who we areOur ecosystem

Active participants in various communities

I KDE

I Fedora

I Cyrus IMAP

I Roundcube

I Horde ...and many others

16 Partners in Europe & United States

Nearest partners:

I SyGroup GmbH, Basel, Switzerland

I FDS Consulting, Zürich, Switzerland

I tbits, Stuttgart, Germany

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Who we areOur business

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Who we areOur business: for and through our partners

ServicesI Targeted integration & development

I Packaging & Quality Assurance

I Training & Certi�cation

Support

I 2nd & 3rd Level Support

I Guaranteed Response Times and Availabilities

Consulting

(large clients and partners, 25'000 users and more)

I High Availability, including Site Reliability

I Large Deployment Planning & Integration

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Kolab Groupware Solution

Personal Information Management (PIM)Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks � Single or Shared

Kolab Groupware Solution

I Server

I Various Clients

I Tools & Scripts

Award-Winning Design

I Super-modular & integration friendly

I Securiy & Privacy

I Federated

I Extremely scalable

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Kolab Groupware SolutionConcept

Kolab is a multi client, multi server concept.

IMAP's the databaseI Everything is an email

I Every email is a �le

I Disconnected IMAP == full o�ine capability

I Easy to synchronize

I Easy to backup & restore(!)

I Easy to scale

I Robust, reliable, fault-tolerant

Everything's a client

I Server side clients & device clients

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Kolab Groupware SolutionSecurity Concept

Big Ain't Beautiful

I Don't believe in all-powerful server

I Modular architecture based on SASL

I Use well-tested standard components

I No user process as superuser for layered defense

I Three-tiers of access control: �le system,application, client

Technical Aspects

I OpenPGP & S/MIME encryption/signatures

I SSL secured transport

I Sender veri�cation

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Kolab Groupware SolutionServer Components

Standard Components

I Post�x MTA

I Cyrus IMAPD

I OpenLDAP

I Amavisd-new

I ClamAV

I SpamAssassin

I Sieve mail �lter

I Apache HTTPD

I Horde Webclient

I Z-Push ActiveSync Server

I Web admin interface

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Kolab Groupware SolutionOther Server Components

Alternative Components

I Dovecot with metadata plugin

I Lighttpd

I Caudium

I 389 Directory Server

I Sun Directory Server

I Netscape Directory Server

I Novell eDirectory ...

Optional/Future Components

I Roundcube Web Interface

I Funambol Server

I Caldav ?

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Kolab Groupware SolutionClients

Five Platforms. One Groupware.

Certi�ed Kolab Client 3.5 & 5I Based on KDE Kontact

I With full business support

I Certi�ed Kolab Client 3.5I Highly stable and productiveI GNU/Linux, adapted to modern desktops

I Certi�ed Kolab Client 5I 5 platforms: GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS,

Maemo/Meego, Windows MobileI Form factor touchscreenI Currently available for larger customers

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Kolab Groupware SolutionOther Clients

Microsoft OutlookI Supported via three connectors:

Bynari Insightc, Toltec, Konsek

I Microsoft-speci�c power features di�cult!

c

http://files.kolabsys.com/Public/Certification/201010-BynariInsight.pdf

Other ClientsI Mozilla with SyncKolab Plugin

I Evolution with Evolution-Kolab EDS Connector

I Via ActiveSync: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile6.5, Maemo/Meego, Symbian, BlackBerry (withplugin), Palm (untested)

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Kolab Groupware SolutionCommunity Edition

Community Edition

I Released �as is�

I No warranties

I Only self-support & community mailing lists

I May contain new or experimental features

I Publicly released by Kolab Systems forI OpenPKG (to be deprecated)I Work in progress:

I Tarballs

I CentOS

I Debian

I Ubuntu

I http://files.kolab.org/

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Kolab Groupware SolutionCerti�ed Kolab

Certi�ed KolabI Fully Free Software � and proudly so!

(No �Open Core� �neo-proprietary� �bait�shware�)

I Only enterprise ready features

I Additional quality assurance

I Adjustable levels of support

I Access to Kolab Systems support infrastructure

I Available to customers forI Red Hat Enterprise LinuxI CentOSI Univention Corporate ServerI DebianI Ubuntu

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Kolab Groupware SolutionResources

Community Resources

I http://kolab.org

I http://wiki.kolab.org

Enterprise Resources

I http://kolabsys.com

I http://files.kolabsys.com/Public/

Contact

I Georg Greve: greve@kolabsys.com

I Partner inquiries: partners@kolabsys.com

I Customer inquiries: getkolab@kolabsys.com