Zimbra has launched its flagship product, the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), with the introduction of ZCS 3.0.
-- Zimlets tool for easy, customizable Web mash-ups -- Cross-mailbox search for compliance and discovery -- Ability for a user to view hundreds of types of attachments in HTML or to download -- Migration tools from Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5; Outlook and IMAP -- Integrated hierarchical storage management -- Online backup and recovery of a mailbox or a server -- Powerful AJAX client for easy server administration -- Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus
"The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a leading example of the innovation in the Web user experience enabled by the adoption and support of open Web standards," said Christopher Beard, vice president of products, Mozilla Corporation.
ZCS integrates the ability to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds, and allows users to publish mailbox content such as calendar, contacts and mail folders via RSS. Zimbra's rich calendaring application supports iCal and includes advanced features such as the ability to create and share public calendars, or import external calendars.
ZCS is designed and tested for large deployments, making it an appealing choice for companies such as H&R Block, the world's largest tax services provider, which recently implemented ZCS.
"We've been thrilled with the response to the ZCS betas, and the incredible support we've received from the open source community -- thanks to the feedback and input of tens of thousands of users and developers, we're ready to launch ZCS 3.0 to the general public," said Satish Dharmaraj, CEO and co- founder of Zimbra. "The messaging market has been stagnant for more than ten years and we, along with the Zimbra Community, are committed to changing it."
Pricing and Availability
ZCS 3.0 Key Features
ZCS 3.0 builds on the groundbreaking server and user interface technologies that have made the beta versions so successful. These include integrated search, single-copy mail store, discovery, anti-spam and anti-virus/security capabilities on the back end, and a rich, full-featured, AJAX-based Web client that brings e-mail and calendar items to life through Web mash-ups on the front end.
The ZCS 3.0 Open Source Edition is free, and the commercially-supported Network Edition is available for $28/mailbox/year, which includes full product support as well as software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. Both editions can be downloaded at http://www.zimbra.com/. Users can discuss topics related to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite and provide feedback at http://www.zimbra.com/forums.
Since its beta launch in October 2005, ZCS has attracted tens of thousands of downloads from more than 30 countries, and already has localizations underway in 10 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Finnish, Japanese and Thai. Additionally, Zimbra has received the support and recognition of the open source community and many technology leaders, including Red Hat and Mozilla.
ZCS is an open source, enterprise collaboration system that reduces the cost and complexity of collaboration, and fundamentally changes the way users and administrators interact with their e-mail and calendaring applications. Zimbra's growing global customer base ranges from large, multi-thousand seat enterprises such as H&R Block and University Francisco Marroquin of Guatemala, to small businesses like 200-seat online retailer Backcountry.com.
For additional details and a full feature list, visit http://www.zimbra.com/.
Industry Recognition
In addition to GA support, new features in ZCS 3.0 include:
"When we decided to roll out e-mail to almost 10,000 offices nationwide, we did an evaluation of the leading messaging players, and found that Zimbra has the best solution for our needs and our users," said Marc West, CIO at H&R Block. "Zimbra is innovative, scalable and very cost-effective to manage."
"Enterprise customers continue to broaden their usage of Linux and open source and Red Hat is constantly seeking high-value solutions to fit their needs. Zimbra offers a very compelling collaboration solution that allows our customers to expand their deployments of open source," said Mike Evans, vice president of Corporate Development at Red Hat. "We're pleased to welcome Zimbra to the Red Hat partner ecosystem."
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