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Zimbra Passes Four Million Paid Mailbox Milestone

 

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Thursday, October 19, 2006; 02:30 AM

Zimbra, a developer of collaboration and messaging software,  announced that it has more than four million paid Zimbra mailboxes globally through onsite deployments and its hosted partner program. More than 1,000 enterprises and organizations have deployed Zimbra across all industry segments, including financial services, healthcare, government and education. Additionally, many users have implemented the Zimbra open source edition and there are more than 4,500 developers and administrators actively participating in the Zimbra Community.


Zimrba Collaboration Suite admin UI.

"The momentous worldwide growth we have experienced since launching a year ago is a clear indication that the market is ready for a collaboration alternative with a strong foundation in innovation and open source," said Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra CEO and co-founder. "We built the Zimbra Collaboration Suite to meet the needs of both on-premise and on-demand deployments, and we continue to see tremendous uptake across the board, from on-premise customers and from partners that leverage Zimbra as a hosted service."

New customers and partners such as Digg.com and Singlefin join established customers and partners such as tax services provider H&R Block, real estate brokerage firm ZipRealty, IT consulting firm Exigent Technologies, Internet service provider Homestead and hosting service provider Amicus.

Industry Partnerships Help to Fuel Growth

Zimbra has added new strategic partnerships and expanded its relationship with technology leaders such as Mozilla, RedHat and Jive Software. Additionally, many open source companies and projects serve key roles in the ZCS and greater Zimbra ecosystem, including Apache, ClamAV, Debian Linux, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Postfix, Sleepycat, SpamAssassin, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu. In early 2006, Zimbra co-founded and launched the OpenAJAX alliance with industry leaders BEA, Google, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo! and Zend.

Unique End-User and Administrator Benefits

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) provides a unique set of end-user and administrator benefits that make it a flexible solution for deployments of all sizes, from SMBs, to multi-thousand seat enterprises, to service providers with one million plus customers. Key features include next-generation email; shared calendaring; Web document authoring and sharing; "over the air" synchronization to a wide range of mobile devices; VoIP integration; and compatibility with Microsoft Outlook, Apple and Linux desktops. The ZCS server is available for popular operating systems: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mac OS X, Debian and SUSE Linux. Zimbra provides an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) browser based client that delivers secure access for anyone within the enterprise.

"Zimbra meets the complex needs of a financial services company by providing strong support for different desktop users and powerful over the air mobility support that does not require additional third party license or server costs," said Lennin Tabora, Research & Infrastructure Chief, Banco Promerica. "Zimbra Documents allows us to create and share vital content such as documents and spreadsheets within the browser, without ever having to download files or install a desktop application suite. Zimbra enables us to unchain the desktop from Microsoft."

The ZCS 4.0 Open Source Edition is free. The commercially-supported ZCS Network Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra Website. ZCS 4.0 Network Edition pricing starts at $25/mailbox/year for a minimum of 25 users for the Standard Edition, which includes product support as well as software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. Additional discounts are available for larger organizations. ZCS is also available on-premise or as a hosted service.


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