Zimbra Collaboration Suite

SMITIPS, that accusation is patently FALSE. Zimbra, which was owned by Yahoo, and is currently owned by VMware, is NOT harvesting emails. Not only is that silly, but you have absolutely no technical evidence to support such a strong statement. Yes, the Zimbra Desktop software is not fantastic. However, this page is not for Zimbra Desktop, but Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the actual server, which I and many others have been using very successfully for years, and would never give up. It's simply fantastic. Zimbra has a fantastic reputation in the industry. Not only does Yahoo continue to use Zimbra, but many universities, enterprises (i.e. comcast), and parts of US government use Zimbra. It has a very active open source community behind it as well.

Just a note on their sister app, the Zimbra Desktop thing. You may want to think twice before giving this company any business. Or expecting them to come to your aid if something in their app breaks. Horrible app. All this raving about it, I tried to put in my yahoo email and password and it just did nothing. I completely uninstalled it, reinstalled it, tried again and it didn't work just like before. Said it was unable to find yahoo LOL. But the worst of the whole thing is, I emailed these people well over a week ago and they never responded. I think this company is attempting to harvest emails and logins for their own use. I would definitely NOT trust a company who refuses to respond to a query about their app where you have to put in your EMAIL PASSWORD. Beware.

After a large deployment on OS X Server hosts, Zimbra has stopped supporting OS X on ppc. Why? No idea. But do your homework if have an investment in ppc hardware that is more than adequate for your needs before buying.

The ownership by Yahoo doesn't trouble me as much as what will happen if(when is more likely) microsoft buys Yahoo. As someone else said, Zimbra really offers a well designed Exchange competitor stack, and I can't see MS letting that stand.

Absolutely no changes whatsoever, besides renaming a Zimblet from "yahoo maps" to "yahoo local." Yahoo plans to (and by all appearances does) operate Zimbra as a separate entity, most likely injecting ZCS components into their online webmail offerings. I know it freaks some people out that Yahoo owns it now (why I don't know... yahoo's turned out to be a pretty respectable company these days), but I (nor other zimbra employees) can see any benefit from Yahoo changing anything about it, nor from killing it outright. It's a truly unique Exchange competitor, and makes its owners decent money... they only benefit from serving their existing target audience better.

Quite simply the best collaboration suite I've ever set up, administered, and used as an end user. The openness of Zimbra really makes it shine beyond the already *amazing* set of built-in functionality. It works wonderfully with iCal (subscribe/publish), WebDAV for "briefcase," plus a TON of other killer features, including an iPhone-optimized interface for mobile devices. It not only acts as a very cost-effective "replacement" for Outlook, it bests it in every way. I have users using the native AJAX interface, users attached via IMAP using Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail and MobilMail (iPhone), even a few using the chat functions via Jabber in iChat. It all just works, and works *wonderfully.* Top notch software. The Open Source version is great and FREE (that's what we use), and the Network (paid) edition is stellar, and very inexpensive.

Sorry, but this is a collaboration suite, not just an app. I'm in no way associated with Zimbra but I think you didn't really understand what Zimbra is. Zimbra is similar to Exchange with OWA. If you don't know what that means and/or have never installed Exchange + OWA, don't even *bother* thinking about considering the option of installing Zimbra. This is very specific server software and needs an administrator to install - a really good systems administrator with Unix experience. So if you are looking a drag-and-drop-installable groupware (there is no such thing), then this is definitely the wrong app for you. Zimbra is really nice, you can just go to the website and check it out, there is a demo-version installed where you can test it and see if it could fit your companys requirements and then tell your sysadmin to have a look at it and see if he can install it.