Earlier this year I wrote about some of the Ajax Optimization Techniques we use with Zimbra to make it perform for our users. We continue to evolve the techniques we use and are always measuring the improvements. While this will be the topic of some future blog entries those of you in Portland this week […]
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Collaboration Suite 3.2 Beta 2 Highlights
Today we released 3.2 Beta 2 for your testing pleasure. Rather than try to pick out a few *hot* items I’ve reproduced the highlights document that is included with the release. The following are some of the new feature highlights coming in ZCS 3.2 (* indicates that the feature is available in the Network Edition […]
Succeeding with Open Source
Most successful open source projects started out as open source. Zimbra took a different path: We cranked code for nearly two years in stealth mode before making the first public release of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in open source in August of ’05. Since then, of course, it’s been a wild ride: Zimbra is now […]
Defining Web 2.0 (Reprise)
(Caveat: this is indeed a retread, but the original content has been sufficiently revised that I’m electing to republish.) While most of the Web 2.0 focus has been on the consumer (Zimbra being a notable exception), I visited a large corporation (call it Acme) that was working on their response to these new technologies and […]
Open source and Unreliability?
Statements to the effect that “open source software is unreliable” are disingenuous. With 120,000 software projects on SourceForge, it is pretty silly to make any generalizations about open source quality. One might just as well say that “all proprietary software is reliable,” although experience easily dismisses any such misconception. The reality is that most software […]
Open source, SaaS, and the shrinking software industry?
I had the opportunity to keynote at the New Industry Leaders Summit (NILS) in Japan last Thursday. In a follow-up panel on open source, an audience member asked one of the better questions I’ve heard recently: “If open source, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Web 2.0 technologies are driving down the total cost of […]