Comments on: Yahoo’s Zimbra Releases v5.0 with BlackBerry Support, New Ajax Features

By: links for 2008-02-09 | Thought Stream: Nitin Badjatia's Weblog

links for 2008-02-09 | Thought Stream: Nitin Badjatia's Weblog — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:45:51 +0000

[...] Yahoo’s Zimbra Releases v5.0 with BlackBerry Support, New Ajax Features I wish this were good news, but we all know this is going to die the moment Microsoft absorbs Yahoo (tags: zimbra email blackberry server exchange) [...]

By: banners

banners — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:47:34 +0000

i was seriously looking at zimbra as part of a solution to migrate to linux, and bam, windows is attempting acquire yahoo who bought zimbra… i’ll be right back in their grips. May have to go with Scalix instead….oh wait, Microsoft cut a deal with their parent Xandros and they are now in cahoots…Arrrrrggghhh

By: dwmtractor

dwmtractor — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:14:19 +0000

Benjamin (#14), Zimbra Network Edition (the paid product) actually has an archiving and discovery package for this very reason. You can read about it on Zimbra’s Website:

http://www.zimbra.com/products.....iving.html

By: Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:43:44 +0000

Mark: Your post about Zimbra triggers ideas. As professionals use groupware like Zimbra (whether sold by Yahoo, MS or whomever) to draft and negotiate legal and business transactions, issues will arise regarding record retention and discovery in litigation.

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:01:39 +0000

Great enhancements and well done. ;-D

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:52:13 +0000

I use Zimbra in my office and it’s fantastic! Great web interface and full connectivity with my Outlook. I’m looking forward to using the offline client. Another shameless promotion- if you do need a hosted Zimbra solutions, check out http://www.specialai.com. Their Zimbra packages mold perfectly to the needs of most businesses.

By: Wayne Goode

Wayne Goode — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:58:42 +0000

Fork the OSS version. Perhaps Yahoo! will open-source the paid versions with their last dying gasp, not unlike outgoing governors issuing pardons in their final hours.

By: Patrick De Schutter

Patrick De Schutter — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:29:08 +0000

Shamelessly plugging my own wares here, but there are very good alternatives on the market for both Zimbra and Exchange. If you’re interested, just sign up for http://beta.contactoffice.com and tell us what you think.

By: Bushi

Bushi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:08:34 +0000

I hate seeing that note about black berry support. It’s total BS, which is to say it’s beta and horrible complicated to setup and you need all kinds of weird ass exchange components. It’s not like win mob or palm os that you pretty much just point at the zimbra server.
Also their task implementation is nutty in that it won’t work with mobile devices at all at this point (go figure).
Better then exchange… yes, but you have just as many problems with little resolution type support (it’s always wait for the next patch/version but at least they do crank out the code).
For most stuff to work you need the paid version the open source version is crippleware unless you are only doing webmail

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:38:12 +0000

Someone will need to buy this back and save it - how about Google?

By: Ken Hanscom

Ken Hanscom — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:07:16 +0000

Zimba v6.0 = Exchange 2008?

By: Simon Slade

Simon Slade — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:51:59 +0000

Not much time left before Zimbra gets turned upside down

Get in quickly before it vanishes off this planet

Simon

By: Zimbra Fan

Zimbra Fan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:47:30 +0000

kuldeep, have you seen a better webmail UI?

By: kuldeep

kuldeep — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:33:56 +0000

Its really good application….I was looking for something like this from long time. But, I must say the UI is not that polished and lacks some intuitiveness.

By: Dimitrios Karagiannis

Dimitrios Karagiannis — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:26:04 +0000

Getting it out while they can. if MS gets its hands on Yahoo, then bye-bye zimbra

http://tecnocitizen.blogspot.com/

By: Hendra

Hendra — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:12:38 +0000

M$ will screw up Zimbra to make you hate it so much that you wish you had deployed Exchange. Then you’ll an offer for discounted Exchange (Home Basic Edition)

By: ValleyDude

ValleyDude — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:07:59 +0000

What are the odds of Microsoft keeping an Exchange killer (that too an open source Exchange killer!) alive? If I were a Zimbra customer …