Email Upgrades – Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0
While internet technology evolves at exponential rates, most personal users and businesses rely on email software that hasn’t changed much in over ten years. That too is changing as more and more offices are making the switch to Zimbra. Using open source standards, Zimbra outpaces traditional email clients like Outlook, and integrates calendar, spreadsheet, wiki collaboration, and advanced search functionality in an innovative AJAX interface that is easy to use.
Zimbra is a commercial open source application that is owned and managed by Yahoo. The main software package is known as Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0, and is available in the following versions:
- Open Source Edition
- Consumer Edition
- Business Email Edition
- Standard Edition
- Professional Edition
“Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 5.0 is a truly modern, innovative messaging and collaboration application. Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, education, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits.”1
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 – Open Source Edition:
The Zimbra Open Source Edition contains all the core functionality of the product line, including some advanced features not found in the commercial versions.
- Address Book
- Basic search
- Advanced search
- Tags
- Sharing
- Basic/Enterprise Zimlets
- AJAX Calendar
- Conversations
- Resource/group scheduling
- AJAX Documents
- Instant Messaging
- Tasks and Briefcase
- Web/CLI administration
- Integrated Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus
- Multi-domain support
- POP/IMAP
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 – Consumer Edition:
The Zimbra Consumer Edition is designed for a single user, and does not include the network sharing tools and multi-domain support found on other editions. However, it does include advanced functionality not found in the open source version, such as:
- Online backup/restore
- Clustering/HA
- Storage management
- Rebranding
- Web/phone support
- Advertising Support
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 – Business Email Edition:
The Zimbra Business Edition does not include the advanced sharing, tagging, search, zimlet, and calendar functionality found in other versions. However it does include the added features of:
- Domain-level administration
- Domain-level branding
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 – Standard Edition:
The Zimbra Standard Edition is one of the most advanced versions of Zimbra available, with all of the functionality of the Open Source, Consumer and Business editions, with the addition of:
- Attachment search
- Resource/group scheduling
- AJAX Documents
- Tasks and Briefcase
- Zimbra Mobile
- Blackberry support
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 – Professional Edition:
The Zimbra Professional Edition is the highest version of Zimbra available, with all of the functionality of the Standard editions, with the addition of:
Outlook/MAPI sync
Apple iSync
Zimbra is now used in over 4 million paid email accounts, making it one of the most successful open source messaging applications on the planet. The experience of Yahoo in email management combined with the community development techniques of open source software offer unparalleled benefits for businesses.
Zimbra Demos:
Taking a tour and comparing the features of Zimbra live vs. your current email client is the best way to get to know the system and make a decision before you buy or commit to the platform. The following Flash tours and live demos are produced by Yahoo to give users a thorough introduction to all the advanced messaging and web collaboration features Zimbra offers.
Take a Flash Tour to learn more about Zimbra
Screenshots gallery here
Hands on access with the Live Demo
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That’s good that they have an open source version.