Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Zing in Zimbra

The Ajax webmail client is slick and featureful, but it's really just a demo of their underlying server system. The server platform is the Microsoft Exchange killer we've all wanted. There's an ocean of people who want the Exchange feature set without the Exchange nightmares: administration, performance, and security. The folks at Zimbra have released it as open source, not just the Ajax client and the toolkit used to build it, but the server as well. Their tests show 2-3x performance over Exchange with the same workload, and they have drop-in compatibility with Outlook and other Exchange-built clients.

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