Originally conceived and developed at
PGSoft before the company was taken over by Novell in 2000, iFolder Professional Edition 2, announced on March 13, 2002 and released a month later, added support for
Linux and
Solaris and web access support for
Windows CE and
Palm OS. This edition was also designed to share files between millions of users in large companies, with increased reporting features for administrators. In 2003 iFolder won a
Codie award. On March 22, 2004, after their purchase of the Linux software companies
Ximian and
SUSE, Novell announced that they were releasing iFolder as an open source project under the
GPL license. They also announced that the open source version of iFolder would use the
Mono framework in an effort to ease development. iFolder 3.0 was released on June 22, 2005. On March 31, 2006, Novell announced that iFolder Enterprise Server is now Open Source. On April 2, 2009, Novell released iFolder 3.7.2 which included a Mac client for 10.4 and 10.5 as well as a Windows Vista client. In addition to the improved client lineup this version supports SSL, LDAPGroup Support, Auto-account creation, iFolder Merge, and Enhanced web access and administration. The iFolder.com website has been completely redesigned with no references to the earlier versions. On Nov 25, 2009, Novell released iFolder 3.8 ==See also==