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Zimbra Turns 40… (Million, That Is)

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:50:50 +0000

…Zimbra paid mailboxes - 41 million and counting.

Crossing the 40 million mark is a big milestone and the credit lies with the growing Zimbra Community (more than 20,000 members strong) and our customers who have helped spread the word. And our 40M paid mailboxes doesn’t even include Zimbra’s millions of open source users.

…Today the majority of our new prospects (68%) are coming from Latin America, Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

[Read full article at Zimbra Blog]

How Zimbra tops Google’s Gmail

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:47:01 +0000

…The secret to Zimbra’s success? Innovation and integration, in part. While Google Maps has found its way into a range of different applications, Zimbra leads Gmail in mash-ups (called “Zimlets” in Zimbra parlance). My company is a Zimbra customer, and one of our sales engineers wrote a Zimlet to integrate Alfresco with Zimbra…in his spare time…over a weekend.
Yes, Zimbra is that easy to extend. [Read full article at CNet]

Zimbra one of top Exchange alternatives

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:45:13 +0000

… Despite these reservations, Zimbra Collaboration Suite is one of the best substitutes for Exchange, even outdoing Microsoft in some areas critical to small businesses, such as Macintosh integration. While you have to be prepared to dive into Unix system management to keep a Zimbra server under control, end-users will be pleased with the results. [Read full article at Network World]

Yahoo’s secret Google Docs killer: Zimbra

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:43:01 +0000

…At any rate, here’s what Zimbra has that makes it an emerging threat to other business productivity suites: first, it has a complete e-mail product set, including a mailbox service and a very strong client–online, offline, and mobile. The relatively new offline client is especially interesting: It uses the Firefox core (called Prism), but you’d never know you were in a browser-based app. Even links in e-mails to Web sites don’t by default go to your Firefox browser; instead, they go the system default. If your PC is set to open up URLs with Internet Explorer, that’s what the Zimbra client will do. [read full article at CNet]

Zimbra Desktop

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:22:56 +0000

Zimbra Desktop is product that recently got lot of attention. It is client software that can work offline, without a need for permanent Internet connection. It fully supports Zimbra Collaboration Suite, in fact it is based on same code. It also supports standard protocols, so you can use it with GMail, AOL and other email providers. Check more on Zimbra Desktop site.

Zimbra and Outlook ?

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:03:26 +0000

Can Outlook connect to Zimbra ?

One of most common questions that we have from potential customers is how to connect existing MS Outlook to Zimbra. It is possible, of course. Not only Outlook, but lot of other connectors (like Apple Desktop Connector) are available, so you can connect wide range of clients to Zimbra. Also, Zimbra supports standard protocols, such as POP, IMAP, iCal, CalDAV, RSS, etc, so you can use almost any standard client with Zimbra.

Check more:

Zimbra Desktop Compatibility

Microsoft Outlook and the Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Getting Outlook Connector

Free Outlook webinar: feature overview and demo

Zimbra Server

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:45:14 +0000

Key part of Zimbra Collaboration Suite is Zimbra server. It is very flexible, built using open source technologies and standards. It can run on Linux and Mac OS X.

Zimbra server

Server features