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Zimbra Hosting

Zimbra has announced our first set of hosting providers. These partners offer various services on top of hosting Zimbra. Links to each of these providers can be found here:

http://www.zimbra.com/partners/zimbra_hosting.html

ISP's or HSP's who would like to host Zimbra for their customers and be linked via our authorized provider pages should submit our partner interest form.

Posted by Kevin on February 28, 2006 at 05:55 PM • Comments (4) • TrackBack (0)

MacBook Pro has arrived...

Just a quick post on my new MacBook Pro that arrived yesterday. Definitely *fast*. The Firefox Intel build (I picked up here) screams.

Posted by Roland on February 23, 2006 at 03:52 PM • Comments (2)

Write a Zimlet and win an iMac or iPod

Want a new iMac? Well all you need to do is write a killer Zimlet and enter our Zimlet Competition. We'll be posting some additional how-to's including setting up a developer environment on a Win32 PC for those who don't have a Linux server at their disposal. We'll also walk through a couple simple Zimlets to get a feel for the structure and capabilities of the Zimlet framework. For those of you who want to get started today you can read the Zimlet Whitepaper or for just take a look at the code from some existing Zimlets.

Posted by Kevin on February 23, 2006 at 08:07 AM • Comments (0) • TrackBack (0)

Zimbra Wiki

We've now opened a Zimbra Wiki. We've started populating it with common questions and trying to point forums questions to that. Please feel free to add to this Wiki and or correct mistakes that you see. This should provide a more consistent and easy to use documentation and FAQ.

http://wiki.zimbra.com

Thanks to Dave for the first external contribution.

Posted by Kevin on February 23, 2006 at 07:17 AM • Comments (1)

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0.1 Released

We've just posted ZCS 3.0.1 which is a bugfix release to the recent GA release. Notable fixes include a bug fix for mailbox move, Firefox 1.0.X HTML message rendering issues, and i18n date parsing. See the forum post for full release notes. Network customers and trial participants can get the latest release from the support portal.

Posted by Kevin on February 21, 2006 at 09:42 PM • Comments (0)

Innovation to validation in less then half the time?

Last week I got to represent Zimbra at a dinner of open source luminaries that coincided with OSBC West. At one point, I was asked what was new in Zimbra-land, and I got to mention that we'd rolled out our GA in early February, and (I confess I made a bit of a dramatic pause here) we were also rolling out our first 100,000 seat enterprise deployment. (In service provider land, Zimbra is now ramping up seven figure deployments.) This garnered Zimbra warm congratulations, but also some incredulity. "After all, you'd only publicly launched Zimbra 4 months ago, and you've already got a 100,000 seat enterprise customer ramping up?"

What I did say was that Zimbra team had been hard at work since 03, and that the technology had been in private customer trials since early 05. Weak. What I should have said was ...

Posted by Scott on February 20, 2006 at 06:30 AM • Comments (2)

Convergence in "on-line" and archived email?

The email archiving market is growing explosively with the proliferation of retention and compliance policies (often motivated by the increased regulatory overhead of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and so on).

While email archiving is frequently grouped with more general-purpose archiving and data warehousing solutions designed for files and databases, the underlying requirements are actually very different ...

Posted by Scott on February 19, 2006 at 01:54 PM • Comments (0)

Email via SaaS (Software as a Service)?

There is a healthy, ongoing debate---for example, check out Phil Wainewright's ZDNet blog or our own prior efforts---over whether email (and associated functions like group calendaring, contact management, enterprise IM and so on) should be delivered via
(1) On-premises software that you configure and manage yourself;
(2) Outsourcing to dedicated service providers (e.g., EDS, IBM Global Services) that manage to your custom requirements (using dedicated hardware/software, often that you transition to them); or
(3) Outsourcing to generic hosted or application service providers (think Salesforce.com, but for email), who often aggregate email with other services (e.g., broadband, telephony) or applications (e.g., Microsoft Office Live).

Posted by Scott on February 19, 2006 at 09:31 AM • Comments (2)

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0 Released

Today we have reached general availability of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, with the launch of Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0. This release includes a number of quality improvements to support GA, but also includes some new features including three new Zimlets: Wikipedia, Search, and Amazon. See the latest on our hosted demo.

Posted by Kevin on February 07, 2006 at 11:45 AM • Comments (0) • TrackBack (0)