By Chris Latterell, VP Marketing Open-Xchange

What a great discussion it was on stage there in Orlando at the Parallels Summit…7 of some of the most interesting cloud providers and enablers in the industry talking about the exploding market opportunity for service providers delivering applications to SMBs. The panel included Open-Xchange CEO, Rafael Laguna, plus executives from 1&1, eNom, KPN, Microsoft, Symantec and Verisign and was moderated by Structure Research analyst, Phil Shih.

By Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange

DerStandard, a highly respected publication here in Austria, published an interview with me this week quoting me that "outlook is old school."

Is this news? I certainly didn't think so.

With all the mobile devices proliferating in the market like rabbits on meth and the need to quickly and easily access email in a consistent, secure and predictable way a lot of users are shying away from mail clients choosing instead to access their mail (and rapidly more and more applications) directly on the web.

What about if you are not online - no worries - there's an app for that too :)

Watch this space for more news on OX7, we'll change the way you do business.

By Juergen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange

Jay Lyman of the451, and Brian Proffitt both blogged about the openness of APIs vs. source code this week.

While there is a lot to take away from their blog posts, I feel there is a missing perspective, and that is how a user is constrained by those APIs and the licensing of the code being discussed.

By Chris Latterell, VP Marketing Open-Xchange

We’re geared up and ready for the annual extravaganza known as Parallels Summit in Orlando from February 14-16. (Yes, that’s me caught mugging for the camera.)

By Chris Latterell, VP Marketing Open-Xchange

In this CloudTweaks article authored by our CTO, Juergen Geck, he reflects on recent history in the context of Facebook’s impending public stock offering. Let's go back and check in on Zuck & Co. in the time machine.

Myspace example aside, what value does Facebook's overripe IPO actually present? Does this financial assessment represent the beginning of Facebook's value to users to provide a better SNS's (Social Network Site)? Or is it a saving-factor to cash in on what cannot be sustained?