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Ajax hype is in full swing. Ajax may be the most promising "new" UI technology since HTML (Ajax programming report card discusses why), but there are now discussions of whether and when Ajax is going to displace Windows and Office. Over the top I think.
At the same time, there is a very compelling case to look to Ajax for Internet services, ASPs, B2C and B2B applications, and especially Email/messaging and collaboration (see below).
How do we identify the sweet and not-so-sweet spots for Ajax? Continue reading...
Posted by Scott on October 30, 2005 at 01:40 PM
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For a term that was only coined early in 05 (Thanks Mr. Garrett---perhaps like Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, we had no idea how we were going to describe the new Web UI we started two years ago), Ajax clearly rates an A in terms of generating buzz. The fair question now is to what degree the reality can live up to the hype.
After looking at the Zimbra Ajax client, Paul Ambrose (one of the WebLogic founders and a good friend) said “There is a special place in heaven reserved for whoever had the patience to get all the Javascript programming right.” On the mark I think. Building rich UI in Ajax today is simply too hard. For the systems programming teams of the leading web properties (e.g., Google, Yahoo!) and platform software companies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, and little Zimbra), it is in reach now. But if we in the industry want to see Ajax follow in the footsteps of other Web UI technologies (PHP, ASP, JSP, and so on), we still have a lot of work to do. Continue reading...
Posted by Scott on October 30, 2005 at 11:52 AM
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We just pushed some new Screenshots of the Admin UI.
Posted by Kevin on October 27, 2005 at 06:37 PM
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The calendar team has been heads down since the last release and the results are pretty sweet. Here are some screen shots and a taste of what you'll see when you grab the next release. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on October 27, 2005 at 04:06 PM
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Why did we not use Cyrus IMAP and what's this business of AJAX and SOAP ... Roland talks about our our server architecture here and about our SOAP here .
Posted by Satish on October 27, 2005 at 12:19 AM
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AJAX is such a buzz word now ... and many ask us how we decided upon AJAX and how we ended up at the right place/right time with the right app. Well, in Dec 2003, about 9 months before Jesse James Garrett coined the word AJAX my co-founders Ross Dargahi and Roland Schemers surprised me one fine Monday with two things they had hacked up during the many weekends prior ... first a really rich and fast mail app that was running inside the browser and talking XML to the backend ....and second a way to associate XML data sources to words inside email (now known as mail mashups or Zimlets as it will be known soon) - this was the genesis of the popular Google maps demo that was shown at Web2.0. Talking of Ross and Roland .... these two guys were server side programmers until we started Zimbra. They were among the best server side programmers I have met in my life .... and in my stint at Javasoft I met some great programmers. But what amazes me is the ease with which these two dudes started hacking Javascript, CSS and HTML ... which included doing the initial prototype that landed us funding from some great investors ... and btw they also did all of the initial visual design/graphics arts for the first year. Continue reading...
Posted by Satish on October 26, 2005 at 11:38 PM
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David Ferris of Ferris Research posted an entry titled: Urgent: Find a Solution to Top-of-Inbox Task Prioritization.
Below are a few ways in which Zimbra can make working with email a more productive experience. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on October 26, 2005 at 01:51 PM
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Scott will be in Boston next week talking on: The Future of Enterprise Email
Posted by Kevin on October 25, 2005 at 10:45 AM
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Some of you may already know about this but for those who don't or forgot. After setting up your mail server you should run a mail relay test. This will run several tests against your MTA and verify it's properly configured. By default Zimbra ships postfix such that it's not a relay. However any custom config may open your server up for abuse. Always better to check before a spammer finds you!
Posted by Kevin on October 25, 2005 at 10:23 AM
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John and I will be in Europe(Amsterdam) next week for EuroOSCON. So if your around or plan to be drop us an email and we can meet up.
kevinh ~at~ zimbra ~dot~ com
UPDATE: John's Talk
Posted by Kevin on October 12, 2005 at 02:56 AM
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Wanted to thank all you fine folks who spread the word about Zimbra - it totally pumped the team up - for that we are eternally grateful. A lot of people are asking about whether Zimbra will be hosted and if so, for whom? Zimbra will absolutely be hosted for businesses and, yes, Zimbra will be hosted for individual email. When? I hope real soon. Many people asked me how long it took to develop Zimbra - well it took almost 2 years of coding by some amazingly smart people - some of whom crossed lines from being server programmers to being UI programmers - a testament to the truly smart. I wish I could demo the server as easily as I can demo the client - all I can say is that we did an insane amount of innovation on the server side and specifically around storage management and availability. And as far as the AJAX magic on the client side - well - more about that in another post .... Continue reading...
Posted by Satish on October 08, 2005 at 12:09 AM
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Satish will be back on the stage tomorrow (well today ;)) for another demo at Web 2.0. So if you missed his first demo be sure to stop by and catch this one.
For those of you too far away from San Francisco you can check out the hosted demo for a personal test drive.
Posted by Kevin on October 07, 2005 at 12:18 AM
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We've been reading what folks are saying about Zimbra. In the forums, news, blogs, and even Slashdot. The biggest mis-conception about Zimbra is that we're just a flashy AJAX client for reading email. While that's true that we've got a great AJAX client it's not all that Zimbra has to offer.
Nat got it right on, as did Steve. Zimbra is about changing the way folks communicate and manage email. Administrators of today's current messaging systems tire over backup/restore procedures that take hours or are forced to recover an entire set of users rather than just a single mailbox. End users fight the mass of incoming mail with complex filters and foldering schemes. Zimbra is different. Admins now have the freedom of hot backups which allow them to do point in time recovery of a single mailbox. End users are freed from the endless sorting and can simply search across the entire mailbox for what they are looking for, no matter where the message is.
Posted by Kevin on October 05, 2005 at 03:56 PM
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