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I'd like to add that SPARC should and will generally be the first target for the Solaris port. A good example is Macromedia Flash, Sun Studio, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Java, and Realplayer, which all except Acroread are available on both x86 and SPARC architectures. The majority of Sun customers buy SPARC because Sun fine tunes their SPARC systems before they fine tune their lower end entry level Opterons. The performance across the board when running Sun if you know what you are doing is truely a killer to Exchange. Because the creator of Java who embodies and extends the vision of Java has influence on the development of Java, it generally is more scalable and faster on their own systems.

This arguement has been proven time and time again when people ask why Apple during their life with PowerPC and hardware manufacturing was even a good solution. The main concept is that the vendor makes the hardware and software, and deliver the most tuned and most economical for the price solution. Apples to Oranges if you are comparing the cost of say a Sun support option to near zero policy with Linux. Because Sun explicitly has targetted the enterprise over the last two decades, and is now coming to the people at a slow pace, ISPs, the government, and people with mission critical needs chose Sun. This isn't necessarily about Linux or BSD or the prevalence of Open-Source oriented software in mission critical environments, but the established security and backing is what people buy. Because Zimbra is a drop in replacement for Exchange, which is used by huge enterprises for some reason or another, it'd be beneficial for Zimbra Inc. to first port to SPARC so that they could leverage a great product on a great well established platform with a large array of corporate backing and high-end customers running multi-thousand user loads concurrently on load-redundant clusters and leased or virtualized grids, such as Sun Grid.

Zimbra does offer the source code and GA releases of their product, which are actually quite functional considering. I'd personally try copies of the community and enterprise versions of the next beta officially available for the site on my dual UltraSPARC system. The next port naturally would be one of the BSDs in my own opinion because the number of datacenters supporting and implementing it. Long story short, get in contact by viewing my profile if you want a Sun customer and Sun supporter, IE. me, to try your next port of Zimbra. Thank you, and have a good day!