![]() I haven't checked out Zimbra Desktop since the pre-1.0 days so things may have changed. How many other email systems have you seen mentioned on the cover of the Wall Street Journal ( ) being called a major competitor to Microsoft Exchange Server with the paying mailboxes to prove it? Sure it is a resource hog but it scales all the way up to millions of users and they have the deployments to prove it. and is fairly bug free given the length and complexity of its feature set. Zimbra comes with a quantity of everything in an easy-to-install and pleasure-to-use system. and it is a very daunting task to engineer one with the available pieces and parts. One of the problems I've had with Linux distributions is that no one ships with anything resembling even a half-way usable email system. I've been using the ZCS OSE for over four years in two installations (hobby and work) and it is very singular in its value as a complete email system. So far as the source being available or not, I can tell you that the proof is in the builds that have been made by community members for platforms Zimbra does not target / support. Well, I guess it depends on how you interpret the feature matrix for their product line: Unlike some products, the Open Source Edition is fully usable and not crippled in any way. They do have several proprietary addons like their mobile support, Outlook plugin, and the various feature differences between the Open Source Edition and the commercial enhanced versions. it is made up of many free software components (MySQL, Postfix, SpamAssassin, OpenLDAP, ClamAV, etc) that are harnessed together with a custom Java-based storage engine, POP/IMAP server, and Web 2.0 (or whatever the trendy word is now) web-client. Please consider the following regarding Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Well, the original article was in Linux Magazine. ![]() Is a post about Zimbra & Gmail really appropriate for LWN?
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