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 […]
Skins and more skins
Owen our UI and CSS guru has been hard at work the last couple weeks revamping our UI skin framework. In the next release it’s trivial to define a color palette and generate the CSS required to re-skin or re-color Zimbra. As part of this the basic skins that ship with Zimbra require little or […]
Outlook Connector Reaches General Availability
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 […]