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Kolab is a personal information management solution, also referred to as groupware. It can provide and manage your information including email, address books, calendars and tasks. The Kolab server acts as the central information repository and thanks to its uniquely powerful design can host up to tens of thousands, theoretically even hundreds of thousands of users. All these users can freely share email, address books, calendars and/or tasks with all, some, or none of the other users. This allows Kolab to provide the support base for a wide variety of activities, such as coordinating appointments, working on common projects and ensuring consistency in customer contact. Your Kolab Solution is always your individual mix of proven Kolab components, combined to accommodate your productivity. Typical components of a Kolab installation include the server with spam & virus filtering, free/busy lists, address books, and shared resources, a smart client on your laptop or desktop, a web client for remote access from internet terminals, and a mobile phone to access your email, calendars and address books on the road. Many of these components allow you to choose between a pre-defined set of options. The primary Kolab smart client for the past years has been KDE3.5 with Kontact. After several years of development by the Kolab Konsortium1 on the KDE4 semantic desktop, this smart client will be replaced for many Kolab users in 2010, providing functionality that seamlessly integrates into the advanced features of the latest KDE release. This new version of Kontact also makes the Kolab smart client available on Windows2 and Mac OS X3, but users can also choose to use Microsoft Outlook as a Kolab client through one of the third-party connectors. Most other email and calendaring applications offer partial Kolab support through use of Open Standards such as IMAP, LDAP or iCalendar. To have your data available wherever you go, Kolab allows flexible choice of synchronization paths through commonly used solutions such as SyncML, ActiveSync, and the Funambol connectors. Towards the end of 2010, the Kolab smart client will subsequently become available on Windows Mobile and Maemo 5/6 based devices.
1. The Kolab Konsortium was initially founded by the partners behind Kolab. Kolab Systems took its place in 2010. |
