A little belated but with the recent release of Zimbra’s 3.1 Collaboration Suite the Outlook Connector has reached General Availability. We’ve put together a short whitepaper which details the advantages of Zimbra’s Connector for Outlook (ZCO). – True synchronization and quick offline switching. ZCO syncs in the background and doesn’t require any extra steps to […]
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 […]
OpenAjax Update
So the OpenAjax Alliance had its first face-to-face summit this week in San Francisco. Up until now, IBM’s tireless shuttle diplomacy has been the primary mover, but no doubt it’s going to get tougher to herd the cats with them all in one room :-). As someone who had the good fortune to be there […]
updating via REST (and a REST update)
By Roland Schemers on May 8, 2006 in Open Source, PowerTips – Admins, PowerTips – Users, Zimbra Server
Time for another REST update. We’ll talk about updating content via REST urls, as well as a new formater. (more…)
Web2.0 + AJAX: The Loosely-Coupled Web
The Web is a massive, globally accessible and ever growing information repository. Just about any information you can think of can be discovered and retrieved via the Web. Until recently much of this content has been accessible through web sites and web applications that tightly coupled application data, business logic (a.k.a. services), and presentation into […]