Group-Office is a

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based dual license commercial/open source groupware and CRM and DMS product developed by the Dutch company Intermesh. The open source version, Group-Office Community, is licensed under the AGPL, and is available via

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. GroupOffice Professional is a commercial product and offers additional business modules like project management, finance, HR and time tracking. The online suite puts independent office applications onto a central server, making them accessible through a web browser. The suite includes file management, address book, calendar, email, notes, finance and project modules. The email client has

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and

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support, the calendar supports

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import, and it can be synchronised with

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. In the Professional version, it is possible to create templates to export to

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or Microsoft Word. Files can be managed in an inbuilt file manager, and accessed through

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. Users may be managed within the application or in an

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system. A LAMP environment is recommended on the server, and an OSNews.com review describes the installation process as "straightforward".

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is recommended as the system software, but it also runs on other

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. From version 2.17 and up,

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is also supported as the system software. In March 2010 Group-Office was compared to other collaborative software in the German c't magazine. A special version was included for the bundled DVD. As of November 2012, the project has had over 420,000 downloads from SourceForge since its public appearance in March 2003. SourceForge made a blog post about Group-Office in 2010. Group-Office has had a stall and presentations at Linux Wochen 2005 in Vienna. and OSC2005 in

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. The software has been translated into 27 locale with local communities in Japan and Austria. Version 2.13 of the software was included in the

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The Open CD. Mid 2012, Group-Office 4.0 was released. The PHP framework was completely rewritten using the

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design pattern. Version 4 was reviewed by PC World The software packages are maintained by a small team at Intermesh and has a small developer community, which is contributing features. The headquarters are located in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.

References

External links

Sourceforge.net blog post about Group-Office

comparison of the Professional and the Community versions

A video about Group-Office by an italian WebTv channel, called ICTv
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