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Originally Posted by andreychek Would you consider a Zimbra licensing scheme that required a payed license for each "full" account, but perhaps offer free IMAP/POP only accounts (no web access, no Outlook, no PDA sync, just IMAP/POP)? This would allow for Zimbra to fit right into the existing structure of hosting companies. |
We're thinking through some licensing arrangements that could support this kind of need. But at this time the simplest option for the service provider would be to run one instance with the Zimbra Network Edition, and one with the free open-source version. Given that the free open-source version has IMAP/POP support (as well as Web access), would this work for the scenario you describe?
We think the Network Edition provides a lot of value for customers & partners who want the commercial support, but as you can imagine, it's difficult to provide commercial support to non-paying users (difficult for any hosted service provider to provide that support to their customers, and difficult for us to support hosted service providers who give away email for free -- beyond making available the Forums, product documentation, Community involvement, etc.). So the free open-source version would seem to be the right fit here. Would appreciate your further thoughts on that....