Group-Office
| Original author(s) | Merijn Schering |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Intermesh BV |
| Initial release | March 21, 2003 (1.0.0)[1] |
| Stable release |
6.8.26 (December 22, 2023) [±] |
| Preview release | None [±] |
| Written in | PHP, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multi-lingual |
| Type | Enterprise management software |
| License(s) | GNU Affero General Public License |
| Website | Group-Office.com |
Group-Office is web-based open-source enterprise and group management software. It is available in a free Community Edition and a fee-based commercial Professional edition.
Product history
Group-Office is a project created by Dutch company Intermesh BV, headed up by Intermesh owner Merijn Schering.[2] Schering actually began working on Group-Office in 2002 as part of a project for a mechanical engineering company he worked for. He was tasked with putting mechanical drawings online "so we and our customers could get the technical drawings from the Internet."[3]
Schering added more features to his content-sharing tool up until early 2003, when he quit working with the company. Despite leaving, that company gave Schering permission to release the software under the open-source paradigm.[3] A SourceForge project was created for the software on March 14, 2003[4], and version 1.0.0 of the Group-Office software was released a week later, featuring e-mail integration, an address book, a scheduler, and the initial framework for project management features.[1] Since then Intermesh has been releasing the free Community Edition on SourceForge, eventually supplementing it with a fee-based commercial Professional edition "because otherwise it would be impossible to keep our business alive."[3]
Features
The main features of Group-Office include[5]:
- address book
- e-mail integration
- calendar
- tasks
- notes
- templates
- file sharing support
- newsletters
Hardware/software requirements
Installation requirements for Group-Office include:
- Apache webserver
- PHP 5.2.x or greater
- MySQL 5.x or greater
- php_mysqli extension
- libwbxml2 0.9.2 or greater
Consult the documentation here and here for more information.
Videos, screenshots, and other media
- Videos of Group-Office can be found on the Group-Office site.
- Screenshots of Group-Office can be found on Softpedia.
- A demo of Group-Office is available here. Username and password is demo.
- Documentation for Group-Office can be found on the site. Documentation varies based on version.
Entities using Group-Office
Further reading
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Group-Office CHANGELOG". SourceForge. http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/group-office/CHANGELOG.TXT. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ↑ "Group-Office community". Intermesh BV. Archived from the original on 25 March 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060325222232/http://www.group-office.com/index.php?folder_id=1&file_id=417. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Connect everyone with Group-Office and watch productivity skyrocket". SourceForge. 21 January 2010. https://sourceforge.net/blog/connect-everyone-with-group-office-and-watch-productivity-skyrocket/. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Group-Office groupware". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Group-Office - Server Version - Comparison Chart". Intermesh BV. http://www.group-office.com/Pricing+and+Sign+up/Server+version. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
