Comments on: Zimbra – Web/Ajax Based Outlook

By: SUCKERPOP » Blog Archive » Yahoo Acquires Zimbra.com For $350 million in Cash

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:37:45 +0000

[...] a very solid source. The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed.Our coverage of Zimbra goes back to 2005. They gained wide exposure at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference. Recently they launched offline [...]

By: OSS Musings :: Entries :: Zimbra Email - FOSS Exchange Replacement with a breathtaking AJAX interface

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:44:40 +0000

[...] about it more below: http://www.tech...ok-application/ http://technolo...ying-Customers/ http://www.zimbra.com/ [...]

By: Michael Vu

Michael Vu — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:04:04 +0000

When I first saw Zimbra a few years back, I must say I was quite impressed. However, I didn’t pursue an open source implementation simply because there was no clearcut data as to what the server requirements are.

Fast forward a few years, and it is still ambiguous. I guess Zimbra will have to wait. The demo sure looks good though.

By: Zimbra: 6 million Paying Customers

Zimbra: 6 million Paying Customers — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:11:43 +0000

[...] We first covered Zimbra back in September 2005. Zimbra is an Ajax Microsoft exchange competitor with a webmail servcie that thousands of businesses and organizations use to handle email, contacts and calendaring. They also offer a great mobile solution. The core product is open source, and Zimbra has a higher end version that sells for $25 per person per year (with various discounts). [...]

By: Ross Dargahi

Ross Dargahi — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:18:14 +0000

asdferrty started a thread on the Zimbra forum at 01-11-2007, 05:26 AM, by 01-11-2007, 12:06 PM his problem had been solved:

http://www.zimb...read.php?t=6187

You will note by the postings on the thread that Zimbra employees got engaged and helped resolve the issue (Post #16 & #17). I would like to add that the person who solved the issue (Bobby) actually works for Zimbra support.

By: asdferrty

asdferrty — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:24:23 +0000

We had deployed Zimbra 4.0.3 Open Source edition on Ubuntu — everything was working fine until we upgraded to 4.0.5 and certain key parts stopped working. We tried to post to the “forums” and got no response to a pretty critical problem, so in order to fix this problem, we called Zimbra sales to inquire about getting *ANY* kind of support and $PAY$ for it since we were in a bind….

The answer we got was very very very interesting – the sales guy told me that Zimbra Open Source edition should *NOT* be run in production – only Network Edition and above. This was shocking to hear from “the leader in open source messaging and collaboration” – clearly that statement is not true. Zimbra is no better than M$ apparently. The only version they feel is “production” is the pay-for versions. And the pricing from Zimbra is worse than if we went with a hosted license from Microsoft for Hosted Exchange. So in order to get any kind of support, you fork over $$$$ to get onto the Network edition (which only runs on pay-for OS, Red Hat, SUSE, OS-X, not OS’s like Ubuntu…) The sales guy told me that open source is free, so what should I expect?

Answer: If you call yourself an open source company, I expect you to behave like one, not like – “hey, here’s a buggy free version that we won’t even begin to support you on, no matter what, and if you want a *real* version, fork over $$$ for the program and then $$$ for support and $$$ for…..”

Support at $400 an incident? over and above what you have to pay for the network edition/hosted edition? and you don’t have a choice of OS you can run it on, except for proprietary OS’s? not gonna happen…. good luck guys, and anyone foolish enough to run the open source edition since you are walking a tight-rope with no net….

By: rnhasan

rnhasan — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:53:00 +0000

By: אנקדוטות » I am not a number, I’m a free man

אנקדוטות » I am not a number, I’m a free man — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:19:51 +0000

[...] “האם חברות web 2.0 הן פשוט גרסאות נוצצות יותר של אפליקציות קיימות?”, שואל אושיית הבלוגים, אום מליק בפוסט המוקדש לעתיד של שילוב אפליקציות voip וweb . בחלק גדול מהמקרים זה אכן כך כמו במקרה המדובר מאוד של writely, zimbra וגם jotspot ועוד הרבה אחרים . אבל רוב החברות הקטנות שלא עולות לכותרות על בסיס כל כך קבוע מציגות רעיונות אחרים ולפעמים רעננים וחדשניים שגורמים לדפוק על המצח ולצעוק “איך לא חשבתי על זה קודם”. הבעיה כמובן, כמו בהרבה דברים בחיים, היא להפריד את המוץ מהתבן כי על כל רעיון טוב יש לפחות מאה רעינות חצי אפויים ועוד כמה אלפי רעיונות ממש מעאפנים. [...]

By: TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (September 11-17)

TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (September 11-17) — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:50:48 +0000

[...] Listal, SoloSub, Fooky, Feedburner (update), Feedster (update), Wikipedia (update), Facebook, WSFinder, Microsoft, Skype (update), Searchfox, Zimbra, Juicy Fruit, Google Blog Search, Meebo, Yahoo Instant Search, Last.fm, Loomia (update), NetVibes, Odeo (update), Pluck (update), Flock (update), Measure Map (update), Memeorandum [...]

By: Sean’s weblog » JA-SIG: AJAX

Sean’s weblog » JA-SIG: AJAX — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:57:34 +0000

[...] A couple of interesting articles on the same are techcrunch and forbes. [...]

By: TechCrunch » The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 1

TechCrunch » The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 1 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:06:44 +0000

[...] Satish Dharmara gave an absolutely stellar presentation of Zimbra (profile), although to be honest Zimbra is so damn cool and full of AJax awesomeness that he could have stood there and babbled and the audience would still have cheered. [...]

By: Zimbra - Blog

Zimbra - Blog — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:22:52 +0000

Zimbra: Not just a pretty face.

We’ve been reading what folks are saying about Zimbra. In the forums, news, blogs, and even Slashdot. The biggest mis-conception about Zimbra is that we’re just a flashy AJAX client for reading email. While that’s true that we’ve got a…

By: 3e-lab, home of rob poitras

3e-lab, home of rob poitras — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:52:45 +0000

Who is using Zimbra?

I want to see if anyone is using it. I have spent the last hour or so reading various blogs and other tech sites and I haven’t found any people that have posted a review of the program.
I am talking with the admin for the hosting company I use, …

By: netgeek.com » Blog Archive » More on mail (tags, ajax, and labels)

netgeek.com » Blog Archive » More on mail (tags, ajax, and labels) — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:08:36 +0000

[...] From TechCrunch today: follow the link to the Zimbra site and watch the Flash demo: http://www.tech...unch.com/?p=220 [...]

By: Ted Media

Ted Media — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:13:51 +0000

Anyone doing the Zimbra?

Zimbra is, basically, a web based outlook/iCal/Thunderbird application in the same way that Writely is a web based version of Word.
At Zimbra, our goal is to make e-mail, calendar, contacts and other communications technologies the best they can be. …