History

In spring 2004 Skyrix AG was contacted by the service provider of a large French ministry to help with deploying the OpenGroupware.org server. The goal was to provide groupware services to the 60.000 employees of the ministry.

Since the regular OGo server was designed for depth in functionality instead of raw speed or scalability it is not suitable for workgroups of that size. But being based on a highly modular set of frameworks (SOPE) it was easy to reuse the existing code for a completely new application. Focused on driving hundreds of thousands of users in a cost efficient way.
This proposal was then funded by the ministry and ...

... the ScalableOGo project was born. And brought forward by our contributors.

In 2006 Inverse decided to use ScalableOGo as the basis for the groupware ventures of the company. To make SOGo suitable for their goals Inverse put a lot of work into the improvements of the SOGo web interface and enhanced the Mozilla clients with plugins to better support SOGo.

Today ScalableOGo is in a decent state to be used as a free software solution for large scale groupware projects.