Hi. Glad to see a section here for educators to talk about Zimbra.
We bought in to the Network Edition to satisfy one of our departments who use Outlook integration to our Blackbaud system a lot. As it turns out, they've mostly switched to using the AJAX Web client and use Outlook only when they have to generate mailings from the Blackbaud database.
I'm very pleased with the feature set of Zimbra but I have to admit that the Network Edition pricing is painful for our budget. At this point in time, I'd have to say that I'd switch to the Open Source version if it weren't for the backup/restore and archiving options which are critical.
I think there's an applied psychology or human interface research paper somewhere in there with respect to Outlook users switching to the Web client... <grin> |