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Old 08-20-2008, 11:03 AM
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Default The concept of a company/organization

Hi,

I am wondering if there has been any planning regarding the concept of company /organization.

Here is the idea:
As a service provider you sell Zimbra to clients.
Most of the time the client represents a company or some other kind of organization.
And often though not always that company has one to one mapping with a domain.

The benefits would be:
- You could assign an administrator for that company that could manage accounts belonging to that company. So any time they need to add/remove accounts they could do it themselves (quickly).
- Company could have a shared document/briefcase space right away and they could have the company contacts accessible right away for everyone.
- The experience would resemble more intranet than individual accounts interacting in an ad-hoc manner.

Does anyone have any idea if this kind of model would be hard to implement since this would be a must feature for us if we were to start renting Zimbra as an Application Service Provider.
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Old 08-20-2008, 11:23 AM
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Are you saying you wish to become a hosted Zimbra provider for others? I am not reading your intentions clearly in your description.

Zimbra can provide all these things, and there are a number of hosted providers available, such as 01.com.
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Old 08-20-2008, 11:52 AM
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> Are you saying you wish to become a hosted Zimbra provider for others?

Yep, that would be the idea.

> Zimbra can provide all these things

How?
The only place I was able to see other accounts belonging to the same domain was when I was inviting people to a calendar event.

I could not see the other accounts under the same domain in contacts.
And what about a briefcase that everyone in the same domain could see.
I tried to share the briefcase to a friend but all he received was an email but no way to navigate to that briefcase. And what about the buddy list? It was empty...

And to repeat myself: Domain is not equal to organization

I know I am a noob considering Zimbra...So forgive me if I don't see something obvious.

I coded with a friend this type of software on top of Lotus Notes back in 2000 and first time I am seeing some interesting developments in this area with Zimbra.
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