 Zimbra is more expensive than exchange
I am very impessed with Zimbra, it is obvious tha the rate at which work has been done and the level of proffesionalisim high. I am sure this all comes at a cost and for this reason I want to sell Zimbra to my clients.
Having now done the costings it is Clear that Zimbra is likely to be more successful as an open source product. I think there may be enough people willing to pay for the full version, but I was looking for something which saved them money over Exchange.
Zimbra is more expensive.
I tried SUSE open exhange (that cusomer went elsewhere after two years and bought exchange).
Tried IMAP with OSASync (outlook stops the connector when it crashes sync of multiple databsases is not supportable).
Anyway this whole experience has driven me to offer two products to my clients
Zimbra open source where they will use web or Thunderbird
Exchange server if they wnat to use outlook. (I set my first one up tommorow)
Microsoft did not get where they are today by being the higher cost vendor
MS DOS was about 1/5 the price of CPM/86
Add more functions to the costed version and sell the outlook connector for a reasonable fixed price.
Frankly I am dedicated to seeing Microsoft move to Legacy, but I do have to pay some bills, I have lost too many customers by not having and exchange level product.  |