What is OBM ?

# General Overview

## OBM Project

After 13 years of development, OBM, is now recognized as the leader of GPL enterprise-class email and Groupware solution face to Microsoft Exchange® or Lotus Notes® and continues to evolve and offer new features.


> OBM aims to provide well-integrated groupware and project management for teams of all sizes. In today’s fast-paced world, high availability is a must.
> Therefore OBM provides a secure solution that reduces the chance for an outage. As Linagora’s focus is on Open Source Software, OBM uses the power of the
> community to provide a premier quality solution fit for the users needs.

## OBM functionnalities :

- **Groupware :** shared calendars, contacts, tasks, documents
- **Ldap :** LDAP directory access, it is built on a robust platform designed based on SSO or identity federation
- **Messaging server :** unified messaging system (up to 100 000+ users!)
- **CRM :** Sales force management (accounts, leads, deals and contracts management), Marketing (e-mailings, mailings...) and customer service
- **Project :** time and activity management, organize your document and accounting follow-up
- **Sync :** synchronization with Outlook, Thunderbird and PDA phones
- **Samba :** Windows domain management

OBM is built on the most mature Open Source components with a modular architecture that is easily adaptable to customer's needs :

- **Services :** Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, OpenLDAP, Apache
- **Language :** PHP (IHM), Perl (Automation)
- **Synchronization, web services :** Java, Javascript

OBM is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, or AGPLv3. Through this license, you can access the source code to explore, modify or contribute to the improvement of OBM.Аксессуары