 turnkey vs piecemeal
For starters, we focused on making our package/install dead simple for turnkey Zimbra installs. Some of our other minor motivations to go this way: (a) we noticed that other collaboration suites were so hard to install for many people - precisely because they had to piece many things on their own - some people can do that, a lot of people do better with an include-all install, and (b) we thought people would derive some comfort is knowing that the combination of packages we shipped is well tested by us.
So turns out we made the folks who "dedicate box(es) for mail and don't have to run around and tweak the box(es) to death" very very happy.
On the flip side, our first binary release(s) not so friendly for the "it has to run on my DSL connection, and I already use port 80 for serving my photo album" situation. We WANT TO cater to BOTH requirements. We just don't the piecemeal bits yet. Bear with us.
Thought you'd like to know why we did what we did. |