A couple of buddies pointed me toward Sys-Con Media’s Top 150 Information Technology Heroes, and I have to admit it was fun (once you click past the obstructing ad anyway). While my first reaction was to want to point out omissions (see below), what’s not to like about a list that mixes Dennis Ritchie, Luca […]
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Software appliances, virtualization, and Zimbra
Sorry to have been dark for the last couple of months. Things have been very busy indeed for the Zimbra team, but it is gratifying to have some of our longer-term engineering efforts baring fruit: in addition to the release of 4.5 (more info here) and opening up our product management portal for your input, […]
Open Source Product Management: How do features get into Zimbra?
One of the great advantages of being an Open Source company is having a community and customer base that can help guide and shape the evolution of the product. Our community and customers use Zimbra in a wide variety of deployment scenarios from the single individual, to small and medium business, to hosted services and […]
Declared Javascript Functions – Odd Parsing Behavior in IE
A function declared in a conditional block that evaluates to false gets defined in IE, but not in Firefox. That is a problem if you are trying to use an ‘ifdef’ or ‘require_once’ mechanism for defining functions. However, if the function is defined via assignment, the reference is not created, which is what you’d expect. […]
How much data does Zimbra Mobile use?
Lots of people have asked how much data Zimbra Mobile uses over the wire. Just got my Cingular bill so thought I’d post a screen shot to help explain. This is just a snapshot of one day Nov 7th and the total is for the previous 30days. My Nokia E61 is configured to sync every […]
Taking Zimbra Offline
Zimbra users have been asking for how they can take the Zimbra AJAX UI offline. Today at Web 2.0 we demo’d this for the first time. (more…)