Tine 2.0

Tine 2.0 is an open-source business software package covering the software categories groupware and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), released under the terms of the agpl license.

Tine 2.0 is platform independent and implemented as a service-oriented architecture (SOA) consisting of two major parts: The server component, acting as the master data source is written in PHP, and uses a SQL database as the central data storage. The client component, acting as the graphical user interface (GUI) is written in JavaScript and runs in the user's web browser.

Tine 2.0 wraps a set of API's around the software libraries ExtJS and Zend Framework to model an open architecture Rapid Application Development.

History Development of Tine 2.0 emerged from development of Egroupware, stemming from a discussion started in March 2007.First discussion about Tine 2.0 Some developers of Egroupware wished to improve the quality of code and the technology upon which Egroupware is based. The discussion was held under the topic eGroupWare 2.0. In July 2007, the first design studies were released.First release of new eGroupWare Layout At this time, the primary goal of development was the creation a new user interface for Egroupware. In November 2007, the concepts for eGroupWare 2.0 got more detailed.Concept for eGroupWare 2.0 The main idea was still to provide way how to improve the existing code base of Egroupware. Unfortunately, not every developer agreed with the new ideas. The main concern was backward compatibility.Compatibility concerns In the end, some developers requested that this development should not be named eGroupWare 2.0 anymore. This led to the name Tine 2.0. The name of the project is based on the first letters of This is not eGroupWare 2.0.Status update of the Tine 2.0 effort

After the renaming, Tine 2.0 migrated its source code to the eGroupWare svn repository.Tine 2.0 in egroupware-core email archive At this time, the main goal was to try out new technologies for the upcomingnabble.com eGroupWare releases. As there was no demand in the eGroupWare project to try out new technologies, the Tine 2.0 project split from the eGroupWare project.

In 2008, Tine 2.0 was finalist of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2008sourceforge.net in the category best new project. More than 150,000 people voted for different open-source projects in different categories.

In 2009, Tine 2.0 was a finalist in Les Trophées du Libre in the professionaldailymotion.com category.

Main features Calendar IMAP webmail client Addressbook CRM Task management Time tracker Synchronisation with mobile devices VoIP integration (click to dial) Provisioning of Snom VoiP telephones Course management for schools Filemanager CardDAV and CalDAV support HumanResources Inventory LDAP and ActiveDirectory support

Tine 2.0

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