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Zimlets are great, they allow developers to integrate our mail UI with all kinds of third party web services and APIs. But what about integrating third party management consoles with Zimbra Admin UI? In version 5 Zimbra Admin UI is an open platform that allows developers to integrate ZCS Admin UI with other management consoles and add new features through admin extensions. Continue reading...
Posted by GregS on December 05, 2007 at 07:12 AM
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When Zimbra started out we had only a few thousand lines of JavaScript
and didn't really optimize our JavaScript at all. As we added
features to the Zimbra Web Client, the code base grew pretty fast. On
the client/end user side, raw Javascript in hundreds of script tags
were received. This came out to be about 2MB of raw/uncompressed
JavaScript, in about 75 files. Continue reading...
Posted by John Holder on December 03, 2007 at 08:30 AM
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Sorry if you got some duplicate posts today. We made some changes to our Feedburner feed to make it work with a wider range of RSS clients. If you see any problems let us know.
Posted by Kevin on July 05, 2007 at 04:24 PM
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Join us for a live Archiving & Discovery Overview Wed June 20th 2007 at 10am PST
In this webinar you will learn how to significantly reduce time and effort spent managing archiving requirements by using the ZCS solution. ZCS has many advantages such as no complex integration required, is easy to use, has powerful web-based discovery features, and has much more cost effective server and storage options.
More on Zimbra's Archiving and Discovery.
Posted by Kevin on June 15, 2007 at 07:03 PM
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Current versions of Zimbra show informational messages, status, and feedback in a small status window in the lower left. Several of us and some users have mentioned it's too subtle and never catches your eye. For 5.0 we'll be moving the status to a quick overlay status message. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on May 04, 2007 at 07:00 PM
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Zimbra gets invited to many events and conferences each year. Starting with our first public appearances at Linux World and Web 2.0 in late 2005. We now attend or speak at several conferences and events each month. Next week is quite busy. So much so that many cubes in Zimbra will be empty next week as folks head out to meet with our current and prospective customers.
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Posted by Kevin on May 01, 2007 at 07:28 PM
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Web 2.0 Expo is in full swing up in San Francisco. Satish will be speaking on a couple panels with enterprise and small business focus. While it's true Zimbra for Service Providers and Zimbra for Education are popular with Zimbra Customers a large number of organizations using Zimbra today run Zimbra for Business. Sam created a Zimlet to make it easier for Zimbra users to use WebEx. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 17, 2007 at 09:30 AM
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One of many new features that will be coming in ZCS 5.0 off the top list of RFEs is the ability to search calendar. You can also tag calendar events and flag appointments. We took a short screencast of searching the calendar, flagging appointments and tagging. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 13, 2007 at 02:33 PM
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Satish had a great idea today. Rather than follow the Zimbra Product Management process he tried his favorite tactic... Just ask an engineer. Well since some of the things Satish asks for aren't that well thought out he was prepared for any backlash. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 13, 2007 at 11:59 AM
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As Zimbra has grown we've begun to see larger and larger Zimbra installs. We now have many installs with thousands, hundreds of thousands and larger running in complex multi-server deployments. Service providers in particular are driving some of the larger multi-domain and super hosting of Zimbra. Over the past couple years our engineering and support teams have learned alot. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 12, 2007 at 09:30 AM
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Zimbra Server Engineer Tim Brennan released a Firefox Extension that let's you check email and lists your upcoming appointments. It's called ZimbraCheck. He released this a few months ago on the forums but we wanted to make sure a wider audience got access to it. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 06, 2007 at 10:00 AM
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In the past few days news sites and a few blogs have picked up a document written by Fortify Software regarding "JavaScript Hijacking". We've also had a few customers and our community ask for Zimbra's view on the topic. First and foremost we take security very seriously. We've talked about securing ajax in the past but would like to reinforce a couple points in light of the most recent news. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 05, 2007 at 04:37 PM
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With last weeks release of Zimbra Desktop and our recent GA release of Zimbra for Ubuntu ( Download OSS or Network) it's now easier than ever to move your email client and server to Linux.
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Posted by Kevin on April 02, 2007 at 05:52 PM
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Slides for today's AJAX Unplugged session covering various techniques in offline AJAX can be found here:eTech_2007_AJAX_Unplugged_Henrikson.pdf (2.6 MB)
Posted by Kevin on March 28, 2007 at 02:07 PM
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Three posts in the same day may be a Zimbra Blog record. Just had to post this. Ignoring all the buzz of Zimbra Desktop over the past 24hrs, Roland has been heads down adding calendar support to the Zimbra Lite client (JSP/HTML based for old computers, slow networks, and ancient browsers). He owes us a post on the Zimbra Lite architecture so I won't steal his thunder. However he sent this screen shot. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on March 26, 2007 at 06:41 PM
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Last night we launched Zimbra Desktop. Same AJAX interface you've been using on the web you can now take with you on a trip be it plane, train or auto. It's even nice for those times your trusty network fails you. Today it supports Mail and Contacts, but Calendar, Documents, and other collaboration features will be coming soon.
This week at E-tech Satish will giving a keynote centered around offline webapps on Tuesday. The following day I'll be digging in deeper to the architecture of Zimbra Desktop with this talk. Some of our arch decisions were covered in the comments of the Zimbra Offline post. As always you can comment or discuss Zimbra and our new Desktop release on the Zimbra Forums.
Posted by Kevin on March 26, 2007 at 10:09 AM
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We just moved our blog feed to use Feedburner this morning. Depending on your feed reader you may get some duplicate posts. Think of it as a blast from the past. :)
Our new feed URL is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/zimbra
Posted by Kevin on March 22, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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We posted the first beta of Zimbra 4.5 this past Friday.
Major new features of 4.5 include complex password enforcement, identities, personal distro lists's, server performance improvements, backup/restore in the admin console, a search builder in the admin console, user-set default fonts for HTML compose, an upgrade to use MySQL 5.0, and a Lotus Domino migration wizard. More details can be found in the beta release notes.
Posted by Kevin on November 14, 2006 at 08:12 PM
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Lots of people have asked how much data Zimbra Mobile uses over the wire. Just got my Cingular bill so thought I'd post a screen shot to help explain. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on November 14, 2006 at 07:49 PM
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Zimbra users have been asking for how they can take the Zimbra AJAX UI offline. Today at Web 2.0 we demo'd this for the first time. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on November 09, 2006 at 09:32 AM
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Several events going on this week. Satish, John and Greg will be at VMWorld where Satish will take part in tomorrow's keynote. Later this week at ISPCon I'll be on a panel - What the Web 2.0?. Last but not least Satish will be back on the main stage at Web 2.0. For those who missed it last year; Zimbra launched at Web 2.0.
Posted by Kevin on November 06, 2006 at 03:53 PM
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ZCS 4.0.3 includes fixes for 55 bugs and enhancements. It has significant improvements in calendar behavior and fixes a bug in Trash folder viewing that was troubling many folks. It also includes upgrade speed improvements. This allows the upgrade to take much better advantage of installs that have multiple disks available to MySQL.
Zimbra - Forums - Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0.3 Released
Posted by Kevin on October 17, 2006 at 03:09 PM
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0 Webinar
When:
Thurs, October 5th at 10am PST. Length: 60 minutes.
Subject: Modern Collaboration with Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 4.0
Overview:
Fueled by demand for better productivity, the web is exploding as the primary communication medium for the modern organization.
ZCS leads the way, providing powerful next-generation messaging and collaboration.
Join our CTO Scott Dietzen for this free live webinar to see:
* How ZCS 4.0 is the right solution for today's collaboration demands
* Discuss and demo features such as Zimbra Documents, Admin UI, Zimlets, Mobile device sync, Active Directory integration and more…
* Why ZCS 4.0 enables organizations to realize the true benefits of an innovative and cost-effective collaboration solution.
* Plus live Q & A
Sign up:
Please register; space is limited!
Posted by Kevin on October 01, 2006 at 03:07 PM
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We released Zimbra 4.0.2 today and there were a few extras that came along for the ride. First off the Fedora Core 5 build is now GA. We also added a new developer/preview release on Ubuntu. This has been a popular hack in our forums for sometime.
Here's a sample of some of the other changes/fixes in 4.0.2:
- perf improvements for IMAP (new MySQL indexes)
- > 2GB support in the Zimbra Outlook Connector
- i18n and some l10n for the Zimbra Outlook Connector
- disabling AS/AV causes mail deferral
- cursor fails to appear in Firefox
- mailbox quota page does not contain any entries
- several all day event and timezone bugs fixed
Posted by Kevin on September 25, 2006 at 09:48 PM
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A few people have asked for my slides from OSCON 2006. You can get them here:
Ajax Optimization Techniques (PPT 3meg)
Ajax Optimization Techniques (PDF 4.1meg)
Posted by Kevin on July 26, 2006 at 01:47 PM
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Earlier this year I wrote about some of the Ajax Optimization Techniques we use with Zimbra to make it perform for our users. We continue to evolve the techniques we use and are always measuring the improvements. While this will be the topic of some future blog entries those of you in Portland this week can get a sneak peek. I'll be presenting at OSCON Wed. a session titled:
Ajax Optimization Techniques: Working with Large Ajax Applications
Posted by Kevin on July 24, 2006 at 11:51 PM
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Today we released 3.2 Beta 2 for your testing pleasure. Rather than try to pick out a few *hot* items I've reproduced the highlights document that is included with the release.
The following are some of the new feature highlights coming in ZCS 3.2 (* indicates that
the feature is available in the Network Edition only). Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on July 24, 2006 at 11:38 PM
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Owen our UI and CSS guru has been hard at work the last couple weeks revamping our UI skin framework. In the next release it's trivial to define a color palette and generate the CSS required to re-skin or re-color Zimbra. As part of this the basic skins that ship with Zimbra require little or no images to create the layout. Initial tests have shown that Zimbra actually performs slightly faster since it doesn't need to load/render images for all the round corners and UI effects. Two of the new skins that will ship with ZCS 3.2 are 'Sand' and 'Sky'.
 
Got a skin or color set you'd like to see in the next release. Add a comment with some colors and a name and it may be the newest Zimbra skin!
Posted by Kevin on June 01, 2006 at 04:55 PM
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A little belated but with the recent release of Zimbra's 3.1 Collaboration Suite the Outlook Connector has reached General Availability. We've put together a short whitepaper which details the advantages of Zimbra's Connector for Outlook (ZCO).
- True synchronization and quick offline switching. ZCO syncs in the background and doesn't require any extra steps to go offline.
- Completely asynchronous user interaction. No delays or pauses as user's interact with Outlook.
- Native standards based security, and compatibility using SOAP/XML over HTTP/HTTPS
Zimbra Outlook Connector (32kb PDF)
Posted by Kevin on June 01, 2006 at 09:51 AM
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Zimbra today released version 3.1
3.1 introduces MacOSX as a supported OS for the Network Edition.
We've also added the following new features: Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 13, 2006 at 10:24 PM
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Zimbra wins Best Enterprise Project at Linux World Boston!!!
Thanks to all who voted.
2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
SourceForge.net 2006 Community Choice Awards Winners Announced Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on April 05, 2006 at 09:02 PM
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Scott will be speaking at Linux World Boston next week. So if you are in the area and would like to see some of the new things we're working on drop by.
OSA11: Is your email stuck in 1996?
Posted by Kevin on April 01, 2006 at 10:20 AM
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Ross, Roland and I will be presenting at JavaOne in San Francisco.
Leveraging Java™ Technology to Integrate Messaging With Web 2.0 Power
May 16 - 19, 2006
Moscone Center - San Francisco, CA
Posted by Kevin on April 01, 2006 at 10:06 AM
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Starting today developer builds of Zimbra OSS now come in 8 flavors. The newest addition is Mac Intel. I'm sure if you're like us you're looking for a way to test that shinny Intel Mac - well, running your own mail server is nice. Plus how cool would it be to have this guy sitting in your data center. The pic below is one of our Mac build servers.
The full list of Zimbra OSS builds include:
- Debian
- Fedora Core 3
- Fedora Core 4
- RedHat EL4
- SuSE 10
- SuSE ES9
- Mac OSX PPC
- Mac OSX Intel
* VMWare Appliance
* LiveCD
Like what you see? Got comments or feedback? Join us on the Zimbra Community Forums.
Posted by Kevin on March 24, 2006 at 05:22 PM
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Voting for the 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards is open -- Zimbra is up for best Enterprise product. Voting ends March 23. Vote Today
Posted by Kevin on March 21, 2006 at 08:45 AM
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Zimbra is up for nomination in the Enterprise category for SourceForge.net: 2006 Community Choice Awards. Winners will be announced at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo, Boston, April 5.
Posted by Kevin on March 08, 2006 at 04:19 PM
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The Zimbra iSync adaptor is now available for private beta for Network Edition customers and Network Trial participants. We've made it very simple for Mac user's to sync their calendar and contact data with Zimbra. There are no additional software packages needed. Zimbra will sync naively with your Apple iCal and Apple Address Book. The Zimbra iSync connector requires Mac OSX 10.4.1 or greater, and is currently certified to run against ZCS 3.0.1 Network Edition.
If you would like to participate in the private beta and are already a Network Edition customer or have been activated in our support system then email your sales rep for access to the beta. If you'd like to trial Zimbra's Network Edition please register for a trial. NOTE: Anonymous or free mail (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) registrations will not be allowed to participate in the iSync private beta. You must register with an enterprise or corporate email account and complete the entire trial registration to be considered for the private beta.
A couple screen shots are below. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on March 03, 2006 at 12:08 PM
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IBM Today announced that the a first build of the AJAX toolkit framework is available for download. This is a continuation of the Open Ajax Initiative which we announced last month. The Zimbra AjaxTk is a key part of this initiative.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ajaxtk Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on March 02, 2006 at 06:14 PM
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Another Ross at the whiteboard production. This time about calendar and how Zimbra enables you to get more out of your calendar.
Beyond calendar 1.0 - ZDNet
Posted by Kevin on March 02, 2006 at 02:35 PM
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Zimbra's Zimlet technology enable enterprises to create mash-ups with internal and external data. Co-Founder Ross Dargahi spent sometime at the whiteboard with ZDNet. Check out this video to learn more about how enterprise mash-ups can boost your productivity when working with email.
Enterprise Mash ups
Posted by Kevin on March 02, 2006 at 02:33 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on February 07, 2006 at 11:45 AM
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Roland pointed me to an article about the amount of Javascript on digg.com's home page. Seems a few Digger's found it interesting. Well here at Zimbra we've got tons of Javascript and CSS in our AJAX web app. I decided to try an experiment to see if the techniques we use for Zimbra, a rather large AJAX app would help a site like digg. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on January 28, 2006 at 12:13 PM
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We've now released a developer build for Debian. Please post any feedback to the forums. From our two polls Debian was a clear leader so we are happy to get this build out and available for the community.
We also released an update to Beta3, which includes a few fixes for some bugs found in Beta3.
Posted by Kevin on January 20, 2006 at 12:08 PM
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ZCS 3.0 Beta 3 (aka Milestone 3) has been released. You can get the Open Source Edition from the downloads page. The Network Edition is available for a 60 day free trial. Current Network customers or trial participants can get the latest release from the support portal. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on January 06, 2006 at 07:42 PM
The new end user flash demo has been posted on the web site. This version features:
* Enterprise mashups: Skype and Google maps
* Calendar drag and drop, sashing
* Delegated & shared calendars
* RSS feeds
Additionally, the core functionality modules have been updated to highlight new features in the latest release.
Zimbra
You can download an offline zip of the latest demo here.
Posted by Kevin on December 20, 2005 at 07:23 PM
One of our community member's FunkyPenguin posted a zimbra group on Frapper. Let's you report where Zimbra is being used. Have you installed Zimbra or are using it. Post your location. Let's see just how far around the world Zimbra has traveled.
Where is Zimbra?
Posted by Kevin on December 16, 2005 at 05:03 PM
Been quiet here on the blog, but quite the opposite here inside Zimbra. We opened up CVS for those who want to live on the edge. We've also released the first beta of our Outlook Connector. Those of you trying the new Outlook support you can comment and discuss it here.
Today we also posted our first developer builds. Perfect for those of you who want to use or test as-it-happens intermediate fixes and features. You'll now get to test with us. We plan to post developer builds approximately once a week. These builds are the same builds that we are running internally at Zimbra (ie our @zimbra.com email addresses). So they are good enough to *use* where use is a *very* loose term. These builds are great if you want to check on that recently fixed bug or get a preview of what's coming next. We look forward to your feedback in the developer forum.
Posted by Kevin on December 08, 2005 at 06:02 PM
Pushed a couple new OSS binary builds. Mac OSX and Fedora Core 4. These have not had as much QA as the Fedroa 3 and Red Hat builds so any feedback will help us make these better.
The release notes have been updated as well.
You can get the builds here.
Posted by Kevin on November 19, 2005 at 12:07 AM
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Don't have time to download the latest release? You can see it now on our hosted demo
Zimbra- Hosted Demo Registration
Posted by Kevin on November 15, 2005 at 03:33 PM
We've released our 2nd milestone build. We've also put out the first beta of the Network Release. You can download a Network trial here.
Tons of bug fixes and some new stuff, here's some highlights. Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on November 15, 2005 at 10:50 AM
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Several folks will be in Germany next week for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Frankfurt 2005. If you'd like to set up a meeting please drop John a note at: john _AT_ zimbra.com
Posted by Kevin on November 08, 2005 at 06:12 PM
Yahoo released a new maps API beta yesterday. We already had a Google maps integration, but wanted to see if Yahoo had anything better. Yahoo's previous map api was problematic since it required you to put their map in an iframe and didn't give much control over the image.
Continue reading...
Posted by Kevin on November 03, 2005 at 04:39 PM
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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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