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Zimbra Blog
We are excited to announce today that Yahoo! is acquiring Zimbra to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed to the community and to our customers and partners while leveraging opportunities to enhance their current experience. Continue reading...
Posted by Satish on September 17, 2007 at 01:00 PM
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Word is out that Zimbra and Comcast have teamed up; we just wanted to confirm it’s true! We’re excited to be working with Comcast - the largest domestic broadband cable provider. We love and share their integrated communications vision. Taking Comcast Triple Play to the web is the right strategy and will give consumers an easy way to manage their communications needs from one portal.
It’s still early, so we can’t provide a lot of detail yet. What we can say: this will be the first elegant, unified communications app for consumers to hit the web (check out the screenshots below). It’s simple to use, built on our AJAX platform, and consolidates everything - email, IM, voice mail, smart address book, and even RSS feeds. Continue reading...
Posted by Satish on May 06, 2007 at 09:00 PM
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One interesting little feature that we have in the 3.2 release is the Zimbra Assistant. This comes up by hitting the "~" tilde key in message or conversation view. This allows you to quickly add a calendar appointment, a contact to your addressbook, send a quick message or interact with a zimlet. The Assistant autocompletes your command. So as you type "ap", it autocompletes to "appointment" and gives you the agenda for the day so you know how your day looks like before you schedule the appointment (see screenshot below). Continue reading...
Posted by Satish on August 03, 2006 at 10:01 AM
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Rolands original post about REST and its follow on suggested that we are doing some work to expose the REST URL via the UI. The 3.2 beta release that we posted last week has some of it exposed. For example, one could right click on any folder in the contacts, calendar or documents application (more on this later) and see properties of the folder. The REST url for the folder is published here. With documents, we have exposed a new sharing model - you can share your document with everyone on the internet, people in your domain, groups in your domain or even external people guarded by an email and a password. In the case where you share within your domain to a set of people or an alias, an email is sent to the people or the group with the REST URL and they can accept the share. In the case, its an external email address guarded with a password, the REST URL is mailed to them (including their password). They can visit the URL, type the user/pass and view the HTML version of the document. And if the sharing mode is truly public, anyone can visit the URL and see the html version of the document. Goodbye PDF - HTML is a truly great read-only format.
Posted by Satish on July 28, 2006 at 11:28 AM
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Been having so much fun around here for the last 4 months with mobile devices and couldn't wait for 3.2 beta 2 to hit the site so we can show it off. Here are some of the phones that work natively with the Zimbra backend. When we, at Zimbra, talk about natively we are talking about no hidden costs, no 3rd party software to pay for and manage (most of our competition require both 3rd party clients and 3rd party servers with separate licensing) to make these phones work over the air. We do not require any new software - neither on the device nor a new server - to make these devices sync over the air with Zimbra. Roland who has a Nokia E62 thinks its the best phone in the market. He, Marc and Kevin all bought the E62 - a few of us - bought the Motorola Q instead. The Q is lighter and smaller and runs windows - the NOKs run symbian and are definitely superior when it comes to web browsing. I used to have a Treo 700w and upgraded it to the Q. The 700w is a very crappy device compared to the beauty that is the Q. I used to have to reboot the Treo 700w once a day - it would get stuck. The Q has solved those issues and I no longer have the dreaded windoze blue screen of death. I worked at Openwave where we had access to state of the art devices - I have to say that the Q (also called Razrberry) definitely ranks as the best device I have owned so far. It really gives Blackberry a run for its money ... Talking of which we sync with the Blackberry as well. Its the only device that we require a 3rd party server for. With all of these devices, employees of Zimbra have had great success syncing mail, contacts and calendar in the last quarter and now everyone can finally use it. BTW - we also do support MAC iSync - so just in case you have an ipod or a ipod phone - we can sync with those too ... Here is a sampling of devices that you could go buy off the shelf and expect calendar, mail and contacts to sync over the air with Zimbra ...
 
 
Posted by Satish on July 26, 2006 at 12:31 PM
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Also, wrt Kevin's post on themes there was a comment suggesting a green #ACE149 skin - we wrote one for fun - we call it "Froggy" and its my favorite. There are 9 others if that doesn't tickle your fancy… here is froggy…
Posted by Satish on July 26, 2006 at 10:43 AM
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So in the last month, the Zimbra engineers have been flooded with emails and phone calls from recruiters offering them jobs. This is very flattering. For two reasons, one its flattering because in the valley there are so many hot companies and so many hot engineers - but I guess Zimbra is now the breeding ground for talent. Second, as soon as these messages arrive - our engineers forward it around and are not tempted to leave a small fantastic startup to go work for a big company especially ones where recruiters blindly spam everyone. The latest rounds of recruiting spam to our engineers came from Mark Jennings who has a microsoft email address and there have been numerous recruiting calls from Google as well....
So that brings us to how we got the talent that we have and how we retain them. First - very high standards in recruiting, very tough interview process and, most importantly, word of mouth (no recruiters). Second, at Zimbra you work with the best and the brightest and are challenged everyday - its an honor to come to work everyday. Third, its the chance to lead a revolution in computing. Here we find ourselves at the crossroads of an internet revolution again - and in some small but definite way Zimbra is leading at least one battle. Finally, this is a fun culture - we definitely work hard and play harder and we all know each other personally as well as professionally. So that all brings us back to this question of how long before we start losing people.... I think we will lose people for one reason alone - we grow too big and our culture starts sucking (I won't be here then either). But we will lose people to other startups, to new startups as I am confident that the kinds of people we have here at Zimbra have no interest at all in being in a company where they don't influence the culture, direction and product strategy. They are all entrepreneurs by heart .....
Posted by Satish on December 28, 2005 at 10:33 AM
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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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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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