Nextcloud and Open-Xchange Extend Partnership

Digital collaboration platform provider Nextcloud and the world’s largest independent email provider Open-Xchange have extended their partnership agreement. Users of Nextcloud Enterprise subscription can now choose to include Dovecot Pro email server software, part of the Open-Xchange group of companies.

Nextcloud will offer a Nextcloud Groupware version bundled with Dovecot Pro, a fully supported email backend that is already the platform of choice of the world’s largest telcos, internet service providers (ISPs) and hosters. This integration is designed to provide a cohesive and streamlined experience, allowing users to manage their email, files, and collaborative projects all in one place.

With more than four million server installations and 75 per market share, Dovecot is the world’s leading email backend platform. Dovecot Pro offers a full-service email platform that delivers dynamic scalability, high performance, efficient utilization of hardware.

Frank Karlitschek, Founder & CEO at Nextcloud, said: “Our partnership with Open-Xchange gives our customers the benefit of an enterprise-grade email solution with advanced reliability and security features. Both our companies are united by the goal to keep the internet free and open like it was designed to be by building standards-based technologies that respect the digital sovereignty of our customers and partners.” 

Frank Hoberg, founder at Open-Xchange, said: “Our partnership with Nextcloud brings together two major players in open-source based software to deliver an enterprise-grade email to Nextcloud. Based on Dovecot Pro, this delivers an email backend with range of advanced features, including its exclusive high availability architecture, extended search, and document previews, along with the highest level of support for mission-critical email they demand.”

Nextcloud and Open-Xchange have been working together since 2021 for a software suite for the German public sector and entered an agreement for open source webmail solution Roundcube, which joined the Nextcloud familiy in 2023.

More information on Nextcloud Mail and Groupware: https://nextcloud.com/groupware.

About Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange (OX) is a developer of secure and open communication and office productivity software, IMAP server software and DNS solutions. Since 2005, it has partnered with many of the world’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telcos and carriers to deliver Open-Source email and productivity solutions that include secure storage, file and document management. OX Dovecot is the world’s most popular IMAP server software and OX PowerDNS provides secure DNS services to telco customers and their users worldwide. Software developed by Open-Xchange is used by 200 million people globally. It is headquartered in Germany, with offices in Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Olpe, and international offices in Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the USA. For further details, visit www.open-xchange.com.

About Nextcloud

Nextcloud is the world’s most popular privacy-focused collaboration platform. It is used by tens of thousands of private and public organizations and tens of millions of private individuals to stay in control of their sensitive data and ensure privacy compliance.

With Nextcloud, users can edit and share documents, chat and hold videoconferences, and manage emails, contacts and calendars via easy web and mobile apps. The open-source software has a modular design and can be extended with hundreds of apps. It runs in on premises in a private cloud or with a trusted provider.

Founded in 2016, Nextcloud is fully employee-owned and has grown organically ever since. Learn more at www.nextcloud.com.

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