Zarafa - Open Source Collaboration
bytemine has been a Zarafa Partner since late 2008. Since 2009 we’re a certified partner and have done quite a few Zarafa projects so far.
What is Zarafa?
Zarafa is an Open Source Collaboration, providing:
- Integration with your existing Linux mailserver
- Native mobile phone support
- Outlook “Look & Feel” webaccess
- Stable Outlook sharing (100% MAPI)
A lot more details about Zarafa can be found on their official website.
We’re not only offering various services such as conceptual work, deployment and integration, maintenance as well as 24/7 standby for Zarafa, but also offer Zarafa hosting on our Xen-Cluster located at our rack in Frankfurt connected to Kleyrex Internet Exchange.
Among the customers we’ve successfully migrated to Zarafa are:
While Miniatur Wunderland as well as Banking Concepts AG are running on their own infrastructure, taken care of by us, PSA Automation GmbH is taking advantage of our hosted Zarafa.
bytemine is starting into 2010
An exciting and interesting year has started for us at bytemine. There are many items on our agenda for this year, especially regarding our product development. Not only there is a list of products we will be releasing over the year, but also we’re going new ways on how we develope these. Bernd Ahlers will hopefully elaborate in another blogpost on how we introduce behaviour driven as well as test driven development. (BDD and TDD).
As a new years present to our customers, we’ve released the 1.4 version of our
bytemine openbsd appliance software, bringing once again lots of new features. There is a
Changelog available. Among the
features, is also support for the uthum(4) USB temperature sensors, we’ve backported the driver
from OpenBSD-current.
bytemine openbsd appliance - version: 1.4.5 [1209] hanah $ sysctl | grep uthum hw.sensors.uthum1.temp0=28.36 degC (temp) hw.sensors.uthum1.percent0=11.50% (humidity)
Right after releasing 1.4 we’ve had some other things to keep us busy. Since the year also started with moving into new rooms. In order to have more space we’ve moved into the new building of the technology center, where we have our office since 2005.
Here are a couple of pictures of two of the new rooms. The developers office, with one of our mascots already up (while the rest is still pretty rough :)
For the first time, we have a meeting room on our own. Well, it is not supposed to be a solemnly meeting room, but furthermore space where one can relax, read and code in a relaxed environment.
Pictures of the other office will follow, once everything is in place.
The conference schedule is about to start with the 4. Linux-Informationstag which will happen in Oldenburg on the 13th of February. Next item on the conference schedule is then our first appearance at the world’s largest IT fair, CeBIT 2010. For CeBIT we have some nice new product announcements up our sleeve, so you should definitly stop by our booth there (Hall 6). Right after CeBIT, there will be the Chemnitzer Linuxtage, where we will have a booth, just like last year.
Of course a new year has also started in regards to the services and hosted solutions we provide. We’ve started to provide the groupware Zarafa as a hosted solution. Each setup gets a Xen (and possibly KVM) instance with the zarafa version best suited for their needs. We’re also looking into adding more types of databases to our hosting environment, considering at least CouchDB.
This only being a subset of what is planned for 2010, you can see this will be an interesting year!
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2009 - First public sighting of the bytemine appliance!
Last weekend we’ve spent in Chemnitz at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2009. We took the chance and presented the bytemine appliance for the first time to a broader audience. A few of our customers already had the chance to call one of these babies their own.
I have to say that the the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage are a very well organized community conference. Not only they offer every help possible for exhibitors, but they also managed to put up a very interesting conference programm, that is targeted at the typical audience of such an event.
We arrived Friday night and as such had to put up our booth as well as the OpenBSD booth (which was located in the community area, and bravely guarded by Bernd) on Saturday morning. Our booth was right next to the Zarafa, which made it possible to even further establich our relationship with them (but more on that in a seperate blog post, I promise!)
As you can see from the picture, we even displayed our bytewear! We actually sell these hooded sweaters and t-shirts too :)
Saturday was finished up with a nice social event accompanied by a wonderful buffet! Here is a picture of 3/4 of the miners present in Chemnitz.
We’ve had many interesting talks with visitors as well as other exhibitors and I’m inclined to say:
See ya in Chemnitz 2010!
By the way, you should check out the list of “upcoming events” on our blog, we go many places and love to exchange ideas!
