Email and Collaboration: Zimbra
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Zimbra is a cross-platform, massively scalable, email and collaboration server, available for popular UNIX operating systems: RedHat® Enterprise Linux, Fedora®, Mac® OS X, and SuSE® Linux. It includes an Outlook connector for Windows users, and AJAX web based client delivery for all platforms, as well as mobile synchronization to many popular handhelds.
From the Zimbra web site: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 4.0 is modern, innovative messaging and collaboration. Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, academic, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits. It’s no wonder Zimbra is popular choice for today’s growing Mac and Linux email server base.
Ajax based collaboration is at the heart of ZCS 4.0. The powerful web client integrates email, contacts, shared calendar, VoIP, and now online document authoring and sharing. Our unique Zimlet technology make it easy to include custom ‘mash-ups’ in ZCS.
ZCS 4.0 also features an Ajax Admin Interface plus full scripting tools, and support for standards-based APIs (IMAP / POP / iCal) which enable seamless compatibility with Microsoft Outlook and Apple.
Zimbra is also pleased to announce Zimbra Mobile, the first integrated offering for open source with no need for third party software or additional servers for most devices.
The Zimbra server is available for Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. The Zimbra Web 2.0 Ajax client runs on Firefox, Safari, and IE, and features easy integration / mash-ups of web portals, business applications, and VoIP using web services.
Zimbra Open Source Messaging and Collaboration Leads You to New Heights
- Email
- Shared calendar
- Web document authoring and sharing
- “Over the air” sync to mobile devices
- VoIP integration
- Microsoft Outlook, Apple, and Linux compatibility
While email use has increased dramatically with the growth of the Internet, the underlying messaging systems most enterprises count on to keep pace were generally designed more than a decade ago. These older systems can be frail and challenging to run in today’s frenetic climate.
Zimbra is leveraging the strength of the open source philosophy to innovate enterprise communication:
Transform email and collaboration to become more efficient
Make administration and integration less painful
Drive down the total cost of ownership (TCO) in enterprise messaging
The overwhelming complexity of managing high volumes of email communication with legacy systems is painful. Which administrator really likes getting yelled at when messages or mailboxes are lost? How many employees enjoy scrolling through of hundreds emails because searching is too hard?
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0 solves the problems faced by administrators and their end-users:
Zimbra Mobile
Zimbra Mobile is a mobile synchronization framework that enables two-way, over-the-air synchronization of mail, contacts, and calendar data between mobile devices and the Zimbra server.
In addition to supporting native synchronization with many popular devices such as the Treo 650, Treo 700 w/p, and Motorola Q, Zimbra Mobile supports other devices such as the Nokia E Series and Symbian S60/S80 series after a synchronization plug-in is installed (may require a third party charge). Zimbra Mobile also supports synchronization with BlackBerry devices via certified partner solutions (please contact sales@zimbra.com for more details).