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Group-Office is a project created by Dutch company Intermesh BV, headed up by Intermesh owner Merijn Schering.<ref name="GOArchive06">{{cite web |url=http://www.group-office.com/index.php?folder_id=1&file_id=417 |title=Group-Office community |publisher=Intermesh BV |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060325222232/http://www.group-office.com/index.php?folder_id=1&file_id=417 |archivedate=25 March 2006 |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref> 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."<ref name="GOSFPost10">{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/blog/connect-everyone-with-group-office-and-watch-productivity-skyrocket/ |title=Connect everyone with Group-Office and watch productivity skyrocket |publisher=SourceForge |date=21 January 2010 |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref>
Group-Office is a project created by Dutch company Intermesh BV, headed up by Intermesh owner Merijn Schering.<ref name="GOArchive06">{{cite web |url=http://www.group-office.com/index.php?folder_id=1&file_id=417 |title=Group-Office community |publisher=Intermesh BV |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060325222232/http://www.group-office.com/index.php?folder_id=1&file_id=417 |archivedate=25 March 2006 |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref> 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."<ref name="GOSFPost10">{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/blog/connect-everyone-with-group-office-and-watch-productivity-skyrocket/ |title=Connect everyone with Group-Office and watch productivity skyrocket |publisher=SourceForge |date=21 January 2010 |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref>


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.<ref name="GOSFPost10" /> A SourceForge project was created for the software on March 14, 2003<ref name="GOSF">{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/ |title=Group-Office groupware |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref>, 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.<ref name="GO100" /> 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."<ref name="GOSFPost10" />
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.<ref name="GOSFPost10" /> A SourceForge project was created for the software on March 14, 2003<ref name="GOSF">{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/ |title=Group-Office groupware |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref>, 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.<ref name="GO100" /> 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."<ref name="GOSFPost10" />


==Features==
==Features==

Revision as of 19:00, 3 October 2013

Group-Office
Original author(s) Merijn Schering
Developer(s) Intermesh BV
Initial release March 21, 2003 (2003-03-21) (1.0.0)[1]
Stable release

6.8.26  (December 22, 2023; 4 months ago (2023-12-22))

[±]
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Group-Office CHANGELOG". SourceForge. http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/group-office/CHANGELOG.TXT. Retrieved 13 January 2013. 
  2. ↑ "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. ↑ 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. 
  4. ↑ "Group-Office groupware". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  5. ↑ "Group-Office - Server Version - Comparison Chart". Intermesh BV. http://www.group-office.com/Pricing+and+Sign+up/Server+version. Retrieved 13 January 2013. 
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