FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
More Than 200 Educational Institutions Select Zimbra in One Year
Zimbra provides academic institutions with a single messaging and collaboration
platform for students, faculty and alumni
SAN MATEO, Calif. – October 22, 2007 – Zimbra, the leader in open source,
next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced that more
than 200 educational institutions have chosen the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
(ZCS) in the past year. Zimbra now has more than 600,000 mailboxes at academic
institutions in more than 15 countries, with many campus-wide deployments
exceeding 30,000 mailboxes.
"Like any large university, we have users operating on Macs, Windows PCs and
Linux desktops," said Bruce Maas, CIO at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
"Zimbra is able to provide our 33,000 students, faculty, and staff with one
consistent email and calendaring solution across all the different desktop
environments."
Zimbra's dedication to the education market is underscored not only by the
numbers of colleges and universities using Zimbra, but also by the company's
commitment to open standards and a platform that can be easily extended to
integrate essential education-focused applications including Luminis (portal),
Sakai (course management), Xythos (document management), and Facebook (social
networking).
"Zimbra's innovative approach to integrating applications together is a real
plus for the education market, " said Ed Miller, CEO of Xythos, "By making our
Digital Locker and Enterprise Document Management suite available as a Zimlet
within the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, for the first time our customers can
easily access their documents and email through a single, web-based interface."
Among the many education institutions who have selected Zimbra in the past year are:
- Carleton College
- Delaware State University
- Eastern Illinois University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Institute Of Technology Tralee in Ireland
- La Sierra University
- McNeese State University
- New York University, Stern School of Business
- Plymouth State University
- Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute – Australia
- Saint Mary's College Notre Dame Indiana
- University of Alabama, Birmingham
- University of Bern (Switzerland)
- University of Hawaii
- University of Indianapolis
- University of Louisiana at Monroe
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis
- University Wisconsin Milwaukee
- United World College of Southeast Asia (Singapore)
- Western Illinois University
"Educators historically have been at the leading edge of adoption of
technologies that enhance communication, enable dialog, and promote
collaboration among students and teachers," said co-founder and CEO Satish
Dharmaraj, Zimbra. "With our recent acquisition by Yahoo!, we now have the
additional resources in place to double down in our efforts and continue to
deliver the innovative features such as integrated archiving and discovery,
mobile device synchronization, and broad platform support that have enabled us
to outpace our key competitors."
Pricing and Availability
The ZCS 4.5 Open Source Edition is free. The commercially supported ZCS Network
Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra Website. ZCS 4.5
Network Edition is available at a significant educational discount by contacting
sales@zimbra.com. The Network Edition includes product support as well as
software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. ZCS is available
on-premises or as a hosted service; for information about Zimbra On-Demand or
Zimbra's hosting partner program, please visit
http://www.zimbra.com/partners/.Users can discuss topics related to the Zimbra
Collaboration Suite and provide feedback at http://www.zimbra.com/forums/.
About Zimbra
Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, is a leading provider of collaboration software for
universities, businesses and service providers. Zimbra's rich AJAX interface is
available on or offline to dramatically improve the collaboration experience.
Zimbra is available on-premises or on-demand through our extensive hosted partner
program. More information at http://www.zimbra.com/.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked
Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities
of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable
experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel
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Media Contact:
Liz Clinkenbeard
OutCast Communications
(415) 392-8282
liz@outcastpr.com
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