Rafael Laguna de la Vera @ OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE

Rafael Laguna de la Vera

Rafael Laguna de la Vera, the co-founder of Open-Xchange Inc. and chairman of the board, took over responsibility as CEO in January 2008. In 2001, he initiated the technology partnership between Open-Xchange's development team and SUSE Linux - today a Novell business. The result of this partnership, SUSE Linux Openexchange Server, became the best-selling Linux-based groupware solution. Rafael acts as board member for asknet AG and comparis.ch.

SaaS - The Right Business Model for Open Source?

By Rafael Laguna de la Vera

What does Software as a Service (SaaS) have to do with open source? Not much, you might think. SaaS, as you probably know, is a delivery - and business - model for software that has been proving quite disruptive to the traditional software business - just as the o...

Apr. 1, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 5,192 Replies: 1

Building a New Communications Highway...

By Rafael Laguna de la Vera

If the Internet did one thing, it dramatically accelerated the flow of information. This, in turn, has led to additional pressures on today's white-collar workers - the so-called knowledge workers. A reply to a written letter may well take a week - more than adequ...

Jan. 28, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 7,560 Replies: 1

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