BlueMind, publisher of the first European open-source collaborative mail solution, continues to grow in Germany as it joins the Open Source Business Alliance.
French software publisher BlueMind, whose collaborative mail solution has already won over 500 clients from SMEs to government ministries, is pressing on with its mission for European technological independence by joining the Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance). This federal organisation for digital sovereignty represents about 170 member companies from the open-source economy in Germany. The OSB Alliance aims to reinforce the industry’s and the administration’s trust in open-source software by working on interoperability and standards, among others.
“The OSB Alliance is the German counterpart to France’s CNLL, the National Free Software Council, which I co-chair,” explains Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind. “We advocate the same values, we fight the same fights. This is why it made sense for BlueMind to join the OSB Alliance and work on common projects.”
Incidentally, the CNLL and the OSB Alliance are co-founders of APELL, the European Open Source Software Business Association (along with CossFi, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software, and OpenForum Europe). The APELL acts as an intermediary between national open-source organisations and EU institutions. It aims to get the voices of businesses heard, in particular in the development of European directives or public policies that have an impact on free software companies and their competitiveness.
Germany, a key market in Europe
Europe – including the Franco-German couple – is being confronted with an unprecedented wake-up call on the importance of its sovereignty, and digital sovereignty in particular. In a conflictive geopolitical context with cyber-attacks and technological supply risks at their highest, technological independence is finally recognised as a strategic issue, as the tech community has been professing all along. And the most-exposed, most critical tool we use every day that all our important documents go through — enterprise mail – is left in the hands of US solutions: Microsoft365, Exchange, Google… Why? Because when it comes to email, user habits and organisational conformism trump all.
BlueMind’s goal is to bring sovereignty and user satisfaction together by facilitating all types of accesses and uses. This has been achieved by being the only natively Outlook-compatible solution and offering the best support for Thunderbird, browser-based use and mobile access. BlueMind respects user habits while providing a wide range of features (calendars, tasks, enterprise signatures, linked attachments, videoconferencing, extensive collaborative functionalities, etc.).
BlueMind is already present in Germany
BlueMind, as always focused on its core business as software publisher, is expanding in Germany through a network of integrator partners.
Since it announced its deployment in Germany in 2021, BlueMind relies on two local strategic partners who have already rolled out its solution for several clients: Centaur GmbH and Meier Computersysteme GmbH.
About BlueMind
BlueMind is a complete enterprise email and unified communications solution. As the first European open-source software publisher, BlueMind brings organisations of all shapes and sizes the choice of a sovereign mail solution that reconciles with user habits.
Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind, has served several times as Chairman of the Paris Open Source Summit. He has been co-Chairman of the CNLL (French National Free Software Council) since 2019.
About the OSB Alliance
The OSB Alliance is a German non-profit organisation made up of public administration institutions, small and medium sized enterprises and leading open-source IT companies as well as proprietary applications and users.
A key objective of the OSB Alliance is to continuously strengthen the trust of the industry and government administrations in open-source software. To that end, it uses a wide range of instruments such as cooperation projects, networking, marketing and public relations.
