Univention Blog

When I started at Univention’s Professional Services in Germany, one of the questions I was asked was “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. Being prepared for the interview, my answer was a mixture of showing my idea of working with customers, my understanding of the technologies of UCS as well as my personal […]

The latest update for the Zarafa app in the Univention App Center – to version 7.1.12 – is significant not just for Zarafa itself but also for UCS integration: the update brings you up to version 2 of the Zarafa Web app and allows the app to be installed on a UCS member server. One […]

Even today, the general consensus still stubbornly persists that Open Source software is developed by ponytailed computer geeks as a hobby in the middle of the night. It’s admittedly a very romantic notion, but one which only reflects the reality to a certain extent. The Linux Foundation recently published a very interesting document on who actually contributes […]

Blue skies, red sunset and a training room overlooking lake Washington. In this setting, the first UCS Training in the United States ended in Kirkland, WA, a Seattle suburb. Despite the initial challenge of offering training courses around the world, Univention North America welcomed the first participants to learn about the finer details of operating […]

What’s the difference between us Germans and, let’s say Americans, if our spying or security agencies instruct the industry to provide them with all relevant data needed to “spy on friends”? In keeping with tradition, we don’t do things informally. We document procedures in a proper contract that obliges all parties to confirm in writing […]

Source: Analyse, IKARUS Security Software GmbH The threat level is increasing! In 2014 alone, approximately 131,000 new types of malware were discovered daily – an increase of 250% when compared to the year before. This trend is continuing unabated: 9 million samples have already been discovered in the first quarter of 2015. It is not […]

Earlier this year, we from Zarafa, have informed our ecosystem about the direction of Zarafa’s future product development. It was one, very long newsletter where we showed how we see the world of communication & sharing. Most people only remembered one thing, though: Zarafa stops Outlook.

We have all got something to hide. There are secrets and information that we only want selected individuals to know and be able to use. In business situations, the rules are often even stricter. We have all got something to hide. There are some data that the law itself states not everybody should have access […]

This week saw the official launch of the new Core Edition of Univention Corporate Server. With this move, we are now making it possible to employ our successful Open Source system for server and IT management free of charge in companies too.

From now on, there is also a free edition of Univention Corporate Server (UCS) available for commercial purposes: the new UCS Core Edition.