By Juergen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange

Ai Weiwei said he would stop using Twitter if they started censoring his tweets. Spiegel Online said Twitter lost its status as liberator due to its announcement to honor national law.

REALLY? Is there another metric for what is right or wrong on the Internet and in our real lives? Absolutely. Does that make sense? Not at all.

The freedom to roam the net, to hack into atomic weapons controls (do people remember War Games? I am growing old …) for some, to watch music videos for others, has been associated in films, and in reality with the Internet. For most people the world wide web, aka www has become the Internet, and a daily commodity.

by Juergen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange

My thoughts on "The Cost of Free" are posted in this article. Google (and others) provide valuable services but those come at the price of individual's (mine and yours) data and privacy.

Don't be naïve, consider the consequences of free.

By Chris Latterell, VP Marketing Open-Xchange

I was reminded of the Google “Good to Know” campaign the other day, where they attempt to get out in front of the data ownership and privacy debate.

Creatively done and quite extensive, but it really leaves out one important part of the story.

By Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange

The Application Packaging Standard (APS), an industry initiative by Parallels, has gathered significant momentum in 2011. Earlier this month, Tier 1 Research commented on a larger trend among ISVs and service providers of every stripe looking to rapidly scale the benefits of the Cloud. „Cloud computing has demonstrated that ease of access and programmatic, automated portability of service are the way forward. Furthermore, widespread consumerization means end users expect more ability to access applications and federate services than ever,“ indicated Carl Brooks, Analyst, Infrastructure Services, Tier 1 Research.

By Juergen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange

Well, rather, a 19-inch rack, which could handle users for a whole city the size of Munich or Houston. That is the gist of what Fujitsu announced today, running Open-Xchange on SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) using one of the high-end server racks. The impressive part is the combination of servers and network switches that come with this bundle, putting up to around 2 million (there is some leeway left in the figures) users into a single rack taking
up less than half a square meter in your datacenter.

So, if Los Angeles (not sure if they are a Google customer still, we could
have rolled-out way faster) came knocking, we could help them out with about
a square meter of their datacenter space being used :-)