EWS as a Service (EWSaaS)

Dank einer Initiative der MFG wird ab kommender Woche der Programmierwettbewerb „Baden-Württemberg Goes Mobile“ starten. Im Rahmen der Kategorie "Kommunikations- und Kollaborationssoftware" wird obigens Szenario realisierbar. Ziel ist die Schaffung einer Gateway-Infrastruktur zur Verbesserung der Interpoerabilität im Bereich Kollaborationssoftware auf Basis der Exchange Web Services.

Damit könnte sich eine allgemeingültige SOAP Schnittstelle für Groupware-Daten etablieren lassen. Spannend wäre es auch, wenn jemand einen REST-Adapter für EWS Backends bauen würde.

Bleibt zu hoffen, dass sich viele Programmieren (Studenten, Freiberufler, Firmen) an dem Wettbewerb beteitligen.

Mit Evolution 3.4 wird es unter Linux einen vollwertigen EWS Client für Linux geben. Weitere Details findet man in einem Blog von Matthew Barnes (Coming Soon in Evolution 3.4).

UPDATE: Peter Hurley provides an Ubuntu PPA which contains an evolution-ews package. The EWS implementation supports mail, calendar and contacts (read/write). Thanks to David Woodhouse!

Deutsche Wolke delivers German Precision Privacy (GPP)

The h-open reports: US authorities have access to European cloud data. I think this finaly shows the relevance of our www.deutsche-wolke.de project. Deutsche Wolke provides: 100 % opensource software 100 % located in Germany 100 % German administration 100 % German Datenschutz We started providing a OpenQRM based IaaS at CeBit 2011. Some weeks later we started providing our first SaaS offering providing a DMS system as a Service (Agorum). At the Zarafa Summercamp I spoke to the German CEO of Zarafa. I think we will be able to provide a fullfeatured groupware setup powered by Zarafa. We will be able to provide: Outlook 2011 connectivity AJAX based WebGUI ActiveSync connectivity Blackberry connectivity The next step will be the integration of a powerful Open Source project management system provided by Information Desire in Mainz (Projectile).  The integration will happen through an ESB. Deutsche Wolke made already a decision for Mule.  We hope to provide an full featured Open Source alternative to existing proprietary  Cloud offerings and to fulfull the Open Source Cloud promise based on the Open Cloud Principles defined by the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) to avoid any vendor lock-in.

Talk on OSII at Zarafa Summer Camp

Today I gave a talk on the OSII (Open Source Integration Initiative) in Kerkrade. The key success factor of OSII is the SOA based approach for integration of all compontens. The same architecture might help to get a better imlementation of groupware interoperability. Therfore I spoke to some people about the idea using Mule to implement EWS. The CEO of LW-Systems (Benno) is interested in joining such a project aswell to provide a vendor neutral Mail-/Groupware archiving system.