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Zimbra in Education

One of the largest areas of growth for Zimbra has been the educational sector. Perhaps it's the simple calendar and mail sharing...or maybe it's the built-in instant messaging. Since the beginning, Zimbra has been a perfect fit for thousands of Educational Institutions around the world.

Posted by John Holder on April 14, 2008 at 03:05 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

Announcing Zimbra Desktop Beta 2

The highly anticipated Beta 2 release of Zimbra Desktop is here. This feature packed release has a ton of features that our users have been asking for. Read on for more.

Posted by John Holder on April 11, 2008 at 03:07 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

Bring Open Source to your Phone with ZimbraME

As anyone who uses Zimbra knows, we like to make cool stuff. A while back, we decided to make a rich mobile client for Zimbra Collaboration Suite which a regular phone could use to access Zimbra. We decided to base it on J2ME, a ubiquitous Java Runtime environment on many mobile devices, that allows it to run Java-based applications. The result is called ZimbraME-- and now it's ready for a wider audience.

Posted by John Holder on April 03, 2008 at 12:59 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

Want a Free MacBook Air?

Yeah, so do I.... But I'm not eligible, and you are! We're giving away this MacBook Air to promote Zimbra Desktop, a revolutionary new e-mail client built on the Zimbra Web Client. Here's how you can get it.

Posted by John Holder on March 28, 2008 at 10:45 AM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

March Madness

At Zimbra, we have many great customers in a wide range of industries, from financial services (H&R Block), to healthcare (Huntsville Hospital), to manufacturing (Middleville Tool and Die). Recently we have begun picking up steam in the education market, and we have been lucky to have over 300 educational institutions around the globe as customers.

Posted by John Holder on March 20, 2008 at 09:09 AM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

CalDav & Leopard Goodness

For those of us who live and breathe by our calendar, making sure that you always have access to it, is a must. Enter the CalDAV Protocol: A standardized way for different clients to access one calendar. Leopard's (OS 10.5) iCal application has built in CalDav support, and it works great with Zimbra 5.0. Here's a quick overview.

Posted by John Holder on March 17, 2008 at 03:18 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

Vote: Webware 100 Awards

Times have been busy for us here @ Zimbra. We have been working to get some cool stuff into 5.0.3, and some other cool stuff that we'll blog about later. In the mean time, Zimbra's been nominated for the a Webware top 100 award.

Posted by John Holder on March 12, 2008 at 02:00 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

ZimbraNotify: The Missing Linux ZCS Toaster

Zimbra has a toaster for Mac, and a toaster for Windows...but didn't have a toaster for Linux until pbruna came along with his adaptation of the checkgmail program by Owen Marshall. Linux fanboys rejoice, your toaster is here (bread not included).

Posted by John Holder on February 19, 2008 at 02:28 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

The Coolest Thing Ever is Released!

The coolest thing ever is highlighted in this blog post with a cool video. It took us a little longer than expected to get the extension out, but it's ready. You need to make sure that you have the com_zimbra_dnd.zip zimlet installed on the server.

Posted by John Holder on February 13, 2008 at 12:22 PM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •

Cleaning up your Contacts with Contact Cleaner

Anyone who's had an iPhone, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile phone knows that depending on how many accounts you have with different e-mail providers, you can end up with 5 different contact entries for one person. Raja, an Engineer here at Zimbra, wrote this cool Contact Cleaner zimlet which was is in Zimbra 5.0. I asked him to write up a blog post, and make a video. Enjoy!

Posted by John Holder on February 08, 2008 at 07:18 AM Comments (0) • TrackBack (0) •