Comments on: Zimbra: 6 million Paid Mailboxes

By: UK hosting web services

UK hosting web services — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:52:45 +0000

6 million paid mailboxes. 1,300 customers. This averages at around 4,615 mailboxes per customer!

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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:35:25 +0000

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By: Roj’s Tech Corner » Using Zimbra in a corporate environment

Roj’s Tech Corner » Using Zimbra in a corporate environment — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:58:53 +0000

[...] has passed 6 million paid mailboxes and has recently signed a deal with Comcast to be the post office for all of their subscribers. [...]

By: Twelve Million New Customers For Zimbra - Partnership With Comcast

Twelve Million New Customers For Zimbra - Partnership With Comcast — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:54:35 +0000

[...] Comcast is ditching its antiquidated webmail software and replacing it with Zimbra’s Ajax office suite, the companies will announce this evening. That’s good news for Comcast’s twelve million broadband customers, and even better news for Zimbra – this deal will significantly grow the number of Zimbra users from the current six million or so customers. [...]

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:02:12 +0000

Things like the H&R Block deal add a lot of mailboxes to the numbers too.

They have almost 135,000 employees, and I imagine they pay a very low per mailbox rate for their employees. Microsoft is trying to get this business back, so it will be interesting to watch.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:37:50 +0000

I’ve switched to Zimbra as a consilidated package for managing users, E-mail services and spam/virus detection. The only complaint I had is that I’ve had to swap to a different OS than my company standard to run this app, however, I have been pleased so far. The AJAX interface is a little sluggish, but I’m looking forward to the simpler web/html based interface in v4.5 I use it for my primary tool for managing email, via the web interface, Mail.app/iMAP or from my HipTop device – No problems. Hands down more versitile app than Exchange, and as DB noted, you don’t need to use Windows to run Zimbra.

By: V Lee

V Lee — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:35:25 +0000

Paid Configured Used…

While decent growth, I would like to see what real $$ is and real configured numbers are and what real Used mailboxes is.

By: rulepark

rulepark — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:21:23 +0000

They r earning. It is a cash cow business model. Why do they still need funding? The figure is over convincing!?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:48:56 +0000

ryan, thanks. done.

By: DB

DB — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:58:46 +0000

Our small business of 30 people are using Zimbra as our mailserver, and have done so for 9 months now. The install was (unlike some commenters claim) extremely easy on RedHat (debian version not available when we installed the first time).

The webmail system is smooth, has an integrated calendaring function, is easy to use and can sync to many mobile devices..

The support is excellent, and yes I would much rather pay Zimbra the per seat pricing for this than Microsoft for Exchange (which I can’t run on Linux anyway..) Zimbra is also providing anyone in our organization with proper email, regardless what platform they’re running, and where they are.

Their administration kit is also worthwhile, but what could have been better is the online documentation (via man pages)..

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:37:52 +0000

Why do they post stuff about “paid” (wink wink) members but not revenue numbers? This is like Baskin Robbins counting each sample handed out as a paid customer.

By: Jordan Willms

Jordan Willms — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:05:31 +0000

God bless the classic low market disruption. Google has been there. Looks like it’s open source’s turn.

http://www.sumo...moves-microsoft

J | sumolabs.com

By: Conference Guru

Conference Guru — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:05:29 +0000

Numbers don’t add up to me? Got to remove that first comment as well.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:45:43 +0000

Is that Spam?

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:35:04 +0000

Hi Mike,

I would recommend editing or deleting the first comment due to the web preview from Snap that shows up when their name “Wonderful Person” is moused over. Just thought you should know.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:25:04 +0000

I find it bizarre they don’t offer a hosted product. Yeah, through partners, but why let others take a cut? Salesforce.com has the right model.

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:16:31 +0000

Impressive any way you slice it. Even at $0.50/mo/paid after discounts + rev share with channel partners, that’s a $3m/mo run-rate to build on.

Will be interesting to see where corporate version of Gmail goes

By: RobertoSucco

RobertoSucco — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:32:35 +0000

Do you think this will make my Open Source stocks rise? http://iam.alwa...php?wordid=2012

By: James

James — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:44:51 +0000

I just wish they had betting open source installation instructions.

I’ve tried maybe a billion times to install it on my dedicated server but can’t figure it out.

Other than that it looks awesome.

By: tara

tara — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:46:18 +0000

Has anyone tried Open-Xchange? They have a perpetual license so long-term would be less expensive. Congrats to Zimbra on their success though, their growth rate iis amazing.

By: Narendra

Narendra — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:24:07 +0000

I hate when companies tout opaque numbers. If you want to boast about things with the word “paid” then list a revenue number, plain and simple.

By: IdeaList

IdeaList — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:48:33 +0000

Hmm, does the back button work now?

Last time I tried their demo, back button logged me off…

Their customers are either anti-Exchange folks or people who cannot afford it.

Good luck to them.

By: TenHanger

TenHanger — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:33:44 +0000

$150mm or greater is the implied revenues according to your article. This sounds CRAZY high for a company I’ve never heard of before.

$25 x 6mm paid = $150mm

With this kind of growth rate, they should beat BEA’s record for fastest company to $1 billion in revs in tech. They also have about the same number of paid users as Netflix. Golly, I don’t know why Netflix has been painstakingly working so hard to get a few million users when this company I can’t even remember the name of has already got 6mm and growing and growing and growing.

I suggest you check the numbers again, something is dramatically wrong.
I mean, Yahoo and Google already do this business model for free, and I don’t know what’s so special about a company that does email, contacts, and calender. WHOOOOOWHEEEEEEEEE!!! email? contacts? calender? ALL IN THE SAME PACKAGE!?!?! Awesome!

By: David Lavery

David Lavery — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:43:41 +0000

Zimbra is indeed a fine product. I use it through a service provider in the UK and found it via this site – so thanks. My mobility previously made getting email difficult, and I didn’t see the Blackberry as worth the money for a small business (and I don’t like the handsets, and the web experience is poor etc. etc.). Things have improved greatly without Outlook, Exchange, or POP3 to worry about. The one small downside is that I have mobile connectivity, but it isn’t “push”, and it requires me to use a Windows Mobile phone using the IMAP protocol – performance isn’t great let me tell you. It could do with a J2ME client really (perhaps there is one and my provider isn’t aware yet).

By: Rajeev Vashisht

Rajeev Vashisht — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:10:49 +0000

The CEO’s are now days saying that open source is ultimately good for knowledge dissemination and also user adoption may laed to a subsequent purchase.