Zimbra users vexed by Yahoo deal
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| "What are they going to get for their US$350 million?," he said. "I can't see
| how Zimbra fits into the way Yahoo makes money."
|
| In addition to downloadable, server-based versions of the suite meant to be
| installed in customers' premises, it is also available as
| software-as-a-service (SAAS) from third-party hosting providers. Keepnet, a
| U.K. provider of hosted IT services, recently developed a new Zimbra-based
| hosted service, but the company isn't feeling too hot about it now, said
| director Kevin Dontenville.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=77929301&rid=-50
Related:
Yahoo! to boost collaboration offerings with Zimbra
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| The move reflects the belief among major players that collaboration
| represents a massive growth market. In March this year, Cisco paid $US3.2b
| for WebEx, a market leader in on-demand collaboration applications.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14486/1054/
The open-source Gold Rush
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| Let's tally up the list:
|
| * Zimbra - $350 million (on ~$10 million (guessing here, but
| guessing at the high end, I think) of trailing revenues) - September
| 2007
| * XenSource - $500 million (on $1 million in trailing revenues) -
| August 2007
| * JBoss - $350 million (on $27 million in 2006 revenues) - June
| 2006
| [...]
|
| * SUSE - $210 million (can't remember revenues - I think $30-40
| million) - November 2003
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9779997-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
The Deal with Zimbra
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| Zimbra released the software a few weeks ago under an open-source license in
| an effort to build momentum among developers. And some of its VC investors
| previously backed other open-source stalwarts such as Red Hat, MySQL, and
| JBoss (Netscape alum Eric Hahn is also an investor and board member).
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http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2005/09/the_deal_with_z.html
Universities Embrace Open Source Email
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| More than 100 colleges and universities now run Zimbra. Eager adopters,
| the company claims, include:
|
| * Georgia Institute of Technology – United States
| * University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – United States
| * La Sierra University – United States
| * Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute – Australia
| * Universiti Malaysia Perlis – Malaysia
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http://techiqmag.com/2007/06/25/universities-embrace-open-source-email/
Zimbra open source mail client geeks it up
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| Zimbra is also profiting from Microsoft's lack of an email service for
| Linux systems.
|
| The corporate email market today is ruled by Exchange, Novell's
| GroupWise and IBM's Lotus-Domino.
|
| Dietzen said that he is confident that one day the company will
| be battling those vendors for the top spot.
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http://www.pcauthority.com.au/news.aspx?CIaNID=48023
Zimbra chases Microsoft with low-cost email
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| Loose communities of programmers had been collaborating online for
| decades. By the early 1990s, they were coalescing into a grass-roots
| movement known as "open source." In the most famous example, a
| software engineer named Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki
| in Finland wrote the core of the Linux operating system. He put it on
| the Web and allowed anyone to tinker with the coding. Word spread, a
| nd gradually computer aficionados around the world were dedicating
| their free time to making Linux better.
|
| [...]
|
| Mr. Dharmaraj acknowledges that with Microsoft as a competitor,
| his company's nascent winning streak could end as fast as it started. Also,
| Google and Yahoo are now both tuning their Web email services for
| businesses.
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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/nov2006/zimbramicrosoft.php
Zimbra Pursues Microsoft, Novell With Revamped Software, Red Hat Pact
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| In a reference partnership, for instance, Red Hat has helped Zimbra
| to nail down a big government contract. Red Hat also assisted Zimbra
| in last year's large deployment of ZCS at accounting giant H&R Block,
| according to Dharmaraj.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6349/1/
Zimbra hits 6 million paid users
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| Six million user is HUGE, even if they were only getting $1/user,
| given that this is the company's first year in business. Would you
| be happy with six million customers in your first year of business?
| Of course you would.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/zimbra_hits_6_m.html
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