The Bavarian capital shuns Microsoft, Google, and other alternatives to implement an open-source groupware solution.

Iomart Group, U.K. managed cloud services provider, announced today that it would use Open-Xchange to upgrade 300,000 email accounts.

WANdisco, makers of Enterprise Subversion, announced its acquisition of SVNForum.org, an 20,000+ Subversion user community, today.

Stylite GmbH announces new added features to the community version of its Egroupware with the release of version 1.8.

The new minor version of the eZ Publish content management system provides extended functions for user commenting and an enhanced administration interface.

John Newton, founder and CTO of the Alfresco Software content management system (CMS) company, has announced a licensing change from GPL to LGPL for the software. The change should go into effect the next Alfresco community version.

The eighth annual KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, Germany started out with an extended snowball fight among the Scottish, German and Dutch contingencies. That actual work was being done was evidenced by enhancements to Akonadi, KDE 4.4 and 4.5, and planned further development of the Kontact groupware client.

Virtualization specialists VMware has enriched its portfolio with the open source based tool groupware Zimbra.