The Virtual Office of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is celebrating its 5 years!
Exactly five years ago in July 2003 the virtual office of the University of Lyon 2 was launched.
It was our first customer in the education sector and they took a bet by choosing a then unknown collaborative solution in order to build [...]

Dear ContactOffice users,
We want to thank you and more than 500.000 other clients for trusting ContactOffice to store your data.
The amount of data that our clients wish to store on our secure servers is constantly increasing. We are therefore pleased to inform you that our free and paying subscriptions will receive a major increase [...]

ContactOffice annouce a new partnership with the canadian compagny De Marque.
De Marque is specialized in education by developing and marketing educational media, content and applications. After winning an important contract in France with six universities of Toulouse, ContactOffice and De Marque have decided to join their expertise to support the sale of the ContactOffice virtual [...]

Dear users,
We released this morning the capability for all users to easily switch from the classic interface to the new Ajax/GWT interface. This new interface provides a brand new way to present your data, including drag and drop features and much more. See previous posts for more release details.

ContactOffice win a new contract with the multimedia developer and publisher De Marque. Six new universities of South of France (Toulouse) choose ContactOffice virtual office solution intended for all their students and staffs who represent in all 80 700 users. The market rises about a half-million euros.
For more information, you can download the press release [...]

ContactOffice at the “Assises 2008″ the 12, 13, 14 and 15 May 2008. ContactOffice is really proud to participate at this event organized by the CSIESR at the “La Grande Motte (Hérault) in France”.
The CSIESR is an association gathering the informatics centres of higher education establishments and research. Their goals are to [...]

As we mentioned in a previous post our very own Luc Claes was selected to Speak at JavaOne. The presentation will take place next week May 6-9 in San Francisco.
JavaOne is a leading industry event; a 4-day conference filled with technical sessions, hands-on labs and lots of educational (Bookstore, Java University, …) and networking [...]

Five universities of the South of France have selected the ContactOffice virtual office solution for their students and staff. For ContactOffice, that represents more than 70 000 new users today and 120 000 in 2009.
For more information, you can download the press release (only in French for now)

ContactOffice recently acquired a 30 TerraBytes storage system. This is the first step towards significantly increasing the space offered to our users. Payings subscribers will see their capacities increase by a factor from 2 to 5 times what they have today. Free subscribers are not left aside and will also benefit from a [...]

IT executives recently converged on Computerworld’s Software-as-a-Service Conference (SaaScon) in Santa Clara, CA (March 25-26), to share their experiences and best practices about implementing SaaS solutions in their businesses.
On day two of the event, research agency Saugatuck Technology presented some preliminary highlights from its most recent SaaS research program, including results from their January 2008 [...]

The news has been spreading like wildfire all over the web: online media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook are all buzzing about the public $ 44.6 billion bid by Microsoft to acquire all of Yahoo!’s assets (or $ 31 per share).
While everyone is wondering what to name the married couple - Mahoosoft, Microsoft!, Microhoo, Yahoosoft!, Yasoft, [fill [...]

Our public beta release has been significantly improving in quality and performance the past few weeks, in large part thanks to the great feedback we’ve had the pleasure to receive from our many users. The new ContactOffice is now more than stable enough to justify a permanent switch for the majority of our users, which [...]

The Belgian TNT Airways airline company relies on the virtual office ContactOffice for more than four years.
For more information, you can download the press release.
TNT Airways chooses ContactOffice

Very interesting: Mail.ru, which has been around since 1998, is apparently the first billion-dollar company in Russia. South-African media & internet group Naspers have acquired a 2,6 % stake in the company for $ 26 million, thus valuing the company at a whopping 1 000 000 000 dollars.

Congratulations!
Next up: Mail.be? ;)
Other ‘mail’ properties:
Mail.com - IDPG
Mail.org [...]

Organised by Vincent Battaglia, Yulbiz is a regular ‘blog & biz’ meeting, mostly for the French speaking blogosphere.
The second edition of the meetup will take place in Café Belga (Brussels) on Saturday the 15th of December. ContactOffice is sponsoring this cool meetup and is giving away 10 advanced editions free of charge.
The event is also [...]

We have officially released the Spanish version of ContactOffice after soft-launching a test version earlier this Summer.
ContactOffice can now be used in English, French, Dutch and Spanish, and the interface itself is also available in Finnish and Swedish. We’re working on adding more languages soon, stay tuned!
Adding more proof to the international nature of [...]

ContactOffice Group is currently hiring a passionate Java Developers for its Brussels-based development team. Join a leading Software-as-a-Service company since 1999.
Profile:

You’re passionate about software engineering
You have a strict OO approach
You master J2SE

Technologies:

Eclipse, Subversion, Ant, Maven
OODBMS, O/R mapping (JDO, JPA)
Javascript, CSS
XML, XSLT, JDOM
Conceptual modeling
Servlets, JSP, Google Web Toolkit
Lucene, JavaMail
jUnit

Send your résumé to Luc Claes, R&D Manager: [...]

As you know, we’ve just announced a new technological agreement with the french software publisher Kosmos.
For more information, you can also download the french press release !
ContactOffice and Kosmos, technological partnership

Reinforced by the bag of feedback from the Office 2.0 Conference, we have decided to pursue one of our goals by expanding our presence into the United States, more specifically to Silicon Valley (where else?) as reported by Datanews (link in Dutch).
As one of the key players in the online office space (which is [...]

Google invited us to present our application at the IT@Cork annual Java event in Cork Ireland. The presentation is about the conversion process currently taking place at ContactOffice in converting a large web application to a state of the art web 2.0 interface.
Another nice endorsement for our technology and approach from Google.
Well done Luc

ContactOffice will be organising its yearly ‘Education Customers’ Days next week in Marseille (France). Our friends of the UNR PACA (Université Numérique en Région of the PACA region) have kindly invited us to host the event on their premises. Who would say no to such an invite. Much more fun at the [...]

Exciting news!
We have just launched our new public beta, after months of development and a lot of coffee. We issued a press release to announce the release which you can find below.
We’re going to present the new version (v1.1.006) at the annual Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, which we have agreed to sponsor.
Don’t [...]

The “Internet Survivors Drinks” co-organised by Patrick De Schutter of ContactOffice will merge with the Brussels Open Coffee Club.
More info below:
Indeed, we propose to merge the Survivors with another internet network group, to create the leading network for internet entrepreneurs & addicts in Belgium. This merger will allow us to join the 259 Survivor members [...]

Olivier Van Espen joined the ContactOffice sales team as a new Business Developer.
He will be assisting Patrick De Schutter, our Sales & Marketing Office, from the ContactOffice head office in Brussels.
This 27 years old young professional has a strong passion for the ICT world. With a Commercial Engineer background he started his career as a [...]

Every Attendee to Receive an Apple iPhone
Office 2.0 Conference 2007
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IT|Redux, New Rules for a New IT World, today announced the launch of the second Office 2.0 Conference to take place at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, CA, on September 5-7, 2007. The Office 2.0 Conference is a collective experiment aimed at [...]

ContactOffice goes Spanish. We are happy to announce the official release our a spanish version of our site in response to several requests from our users and the interest in the spanish blogosphere for our solution.
Other language versions will follow. Stay tuned.

A recent study done by McKinsey & Co reveiled interesting insight about the usage of web 2.0 technologies in the corporate environment.
It found that 42% of the respondents would have invested more in web 2.0 services over the past five years if they had the chance to do it over again.
When questioned about [...]

Christophe Beyls has joined the ContactOffice team as a new Java Developer.
He will be assisting Luc Claes, our Chief Developer, from the ContactOffice head office in Brussels.
This 24 years young professional has a passion for computer science since he was a kid. At age 10 he had already written his first program on his Commodore [...]

The ContactOffice virtual office gives you the opportunity to sell a collaboration platform for a small structure when the price of traditional solutions becomes an obstacle.
Our Reseller program facilitates selling Light, Regular, Advanced and Hyper subscriptions (in Personal or Group versions) for which you will receive a monthly recurrent commission, depending on the generated turnover. [...]

We would like to present to our blogaudience 3 new customers opting for our personalized version:
Arthur Straight is a French Consultancy firm located near Paris.
Steenwinkel Kruithof Associates is a Dutch Consultancy firm, specialized in IT and Management consultancy.
Laborelec is a technical Competence Center in energy processes and energy use.