1. OBM OBM (Open Business Management)‏ Discover the full GPL enterprise-class email and groupware solution By Pierre Baudracco OBM Leader pierre.baudracco@obm.org

2. 2 Summary Why a new messaging solution !

3. 3 Summary It is NOT New !! Why a new messaging solution !

4. 4 Summary It is NOT New !! It WORKS ! Why a new messaging solution !

5. 5 Summary It is NOT New !! It WORKS ! It is full GPL ! Why a new messaging solution !

6. 6 Summary It is NOT New !! It WORKS ! It is full GPL ! It’s enjoyable... Why a new messaging solution !

7. 7 Summary It is NOT New !! It WORKS ! It is full GPL ! It’s enjoyable... well Let’s See ! Why a new messaging solution !

8. 8 Summary Project overview Features Technology and architecture Community, Customers Roadmap Demo Questions

9. 9 Project Overview

10. 10 OBM : History Created in 1998 – Project leader : Pierre Baudracco License : GPL Recent major releases – 2007 : OBM 2.0 – 2008 : OBM 2.1 – OBM 2.2 due end 2008

11. 11 OBM Overview Document Management CRM Email Security CRM Email CRM Email CRM Email Agenda Groupware Sync Admin Wide and rich functionalities

12. 12 User friendly interface : – Web 2.0 : (Drag & drop events in Calendar) ‏ Multiple access – standard desktop client, Outlook, Thunderbird – Web access – PDA Administration delegations (site distribution) OBM : an enterprise-class solution Enterprise class solution

13. 13 Some Features

14. 14 Groupware Features Shared calendars Shared contacts Tasks

15. 15 Groupware Features Calendar : global view

16. 16 Groupware Features Meeting planning

17. 17 Synchronisation Features

18. 18 OBM Outlook connector Full Outlook integration – MAPI structure handling – Efficient, incremental sync Synchronises : – Calendars, according to access rights – Contacts and Users – Tasks Migration and installation tools

19. 19 OBM Thunderbird / Lightning connector Synchronises : – Calendars (Lightning) ‏ – Contacts and Users Single Sign On (Thunderbird – OBM) Lightning status – Becoming a mature product (plugin) ‏ – Thunderbird 2.0. Should be native in 3.0 – Potential to become « the » Messaging client : Multi platform, with mail and groupware

20. 20 Native synchronisation for SyncML based PDA (SyncML server integration) ‏ Synchronisation through Outlook for Active Sync based PDAs SyncML Connectors available – Symbian – Windows mobile – Blackberry – Palm OBM PDA connector

21. 21 Users can keep their email client Industrialised migration tools – Users Importation, synchronisation – Outlook, iCal Calendar Imports –.PST Thunderbird import Easy migration

22. 22 Deployment tools – Outlook connector installation wizard – Silent installation mode (batch, scripts) ‏ Thunderbird Auto-configuration – Allow unique login filling to configure the entire client – Avoid typing errors – Important gain on massive deployments Easy deployment

23. 23 Technology and Architecture

24. 24 OBM is based on mature, standard Open Source Components : – Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, OpenLDAP – Apache, – MySQL or Postgres (OBM 2.2) ‏ – PHP (GUI) ‏ – Perl (Automate) ‏ – Java (Synchronisation, web services) ‏ OBM components

25. 25 OBM architecture

26. 26 Multi-domains support (same namespace or not) High Availability Performances and large user base – Cyrus Murder handling – One or more mailboxes storage backend – Load balancing – Scalability (adding storage backend) ‏ Architecture : key points

27. 27 Architecture : multi-backend example

28. 28 Components can be distributed Satellite OBM server – Server on different site – Run in autonomous mode (mail) – Centralised configuration – obm-satellite : Configuration Daemon Keeping Postfix configuration (users,..) in LDAP With local maps performances Architecture : Distributed services

29. 29 Architecture : security ‘s’ communications : HTTPS, LDAPS,...

30. 30 Community and Customers

31. 31 Community Website Community site : obm.org Mailing list, bugzilla, downloads, svn, documentation,..

32. 32 obm@freshmeat 168 subscribers, Popularity : 8,86 % (283 / 45 000) ‏

33. 33 OBM Packages available yum install OBM (EPEL repository) ‏ yum install OBM apt-get install OBM obm-ui : web interface

34. 34 OBM Professional website

35. 35 OBM customers

36. 36 Win backs from Lotus, Exchange, Groupwise French Tax ministry (goal : 150 000 mailboxes) ‏ French Police ministry (100 000 mailboxes) ‏‏ French Defense ministry (5000 mailboxes) INSERM (16 000 mailboxes) ‏ Gélatines Weishardt (World Third Gelatine producer) ‏ BREST Hospital (6000 mailboxes) ‏ French Parliament (3000 mailboxes) ‏ Universities : Troyes University, De Vinci University,...... OBM key references

37. 37 Roadmap

38. 38 New Webmail : miniG based on GWT Postgres support Client enhancements – Thunderbird, plug-ins – PDA : iPhone support CRM enhancements – Deep Email integration More migration tools More Instant Messaging integration OBM Roadmap

39. 39 New Webmail : miniG (full Ajax, Gwt, no reload, indexing,..) ‏ OBM Roadmap : New Webmail

40. 40 OBM Demo

41. Thank You !