COLLABORATION SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR LARGE DEPLOYMENTS.Zimbra has launched its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS ZCS Zero Current Switching (high voltage DC/DC converters) ZCS Zero-Current Switching ZCS Zero Code Suppression ZCS Zinc Coated Screw ZCS Zero Correlation Spread ZCS Zonal Comfort System ), with the introduction of ZCS 3.0. 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. "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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. 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." 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. "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 CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. at H&R Block. "Zimbra is innovative, scalable and very cost-effective to manage." 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. ZCS integrates the ability to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. 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. In addition to GA support, new features in ZCS 3.0 include: -- 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 HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or to download -- Migration tools from Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. 2003, 2000 and 5.5; Outlook and IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol -- Integrated hierarchical storage management See HSM. -- Online backup Using the Web to store copies of data for backup. There are numerous providers on the Internet that charge for storage, and fees are typically based on capacity. Online backup services provide offsite backup, which is essential for disaster recovery. See backup types. and recovery of a mailbox or a server -- Powerful AJAX client for easy server administration -- Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus For additional details and a full feature list, visit http://www.zimbra.com/. Industry Recognition 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. "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." "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 Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for ," said Christopher Beard, vice president of products, Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by the growing global community of . Pricing and Availability 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. About Zimbra Zimbra's mission is to dramatically improve the messaging and collaboration experience for both administrators and users. Zimbra's goal is to achieve this by investing in innovation, open source, and compatibility with existing applications and systems. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite supports Windows, Apple, and Linux platforms and works with Microsoft Outlook as well as other PC and mobile clients. Additionally, Zimbra provides an AJAX browser based client that provides rich, secure, anytime access for anyone within the enterprise. Zimbra can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.zimbra.com. For more information, call 415/392-8282. |
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