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 […]
Ajax impact on server scaling
Our discussion of Zimbra server scaling has engendered at least one spin-off: The question of the impact of rich Ajax client applications on the servers that support them. Let’s consider the big picture first, and then we will dig into Ajax … (more…)
Scaling up Zimbra
We are now working with some of the Zimbra early adopters on larger-scale deployments, including enduser deployments upwards of 100 thousand mailboxes, and hosted/internet service provider deployments north of 1 million mailboxes. In general, the individual (per mailbox) profiles tends to be on the smaller side (typically, <100 messages/day, <200Mb average mailbox size), but the […]