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Open-Xchange Inc., provider of open source collaboration software, has announced its partnership and support agreement with MySQL AB. This partnership enables Open-Xchange to embed the MySQL database into its leading open source collaboration server.

Open-Xchange will add MySQL support to its Linux-based collaboration solution, Open-Xchange Server. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will work to ensure optimized interaction between MySQL databases and Open-Xchange groupware functionality for joint customers. As part of the MySQL integration into Open-Xchange Server products, current customers are promised that upgrades will be designed to ensure smooth data migration from existing installations.

Open-Xchange Server 5 provides collaborative functions such as e-mail, calendaring, contacts and task management, integrated with advanced groupware features such as documail, smart linking, smart permissions, document sharing, project tracking, user forums, and a knowledge base.

Launched in August 2004, Open-Xchange’s open source project is currently ranked #3 out of 358 groupware projects on the freshmeat.net website, #1 in document repositories, #4 in handhelds, and the #149 most popular overall project, out of more than 40,000 listed projects.

According to company figures, the community version of Open-Xchange Server is downloaded over 6,000 times monthly. Open-Xchange Server 5 supports Red Hat and SUSE and is available with the Collax Business Server. Open-Xchange Smart Collaboration has been awarded the LinuxWorld’s Product Excellence Award, ServerWatch’s Product Excellent Award, and InfoWeek’s Server Product of the Year.

Open-Xchange Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Tarrytown, N.Y., with research and development and operations in Olpe, Germany and Nuremberg, Germany.