(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 […]
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 […]