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Zimbra Collaboration Suite Launched

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the my-web-browser-is-tired-of-doing-all-the-work dept.

commonchaos writes "Recently a company named Zimbra has come out of nowhere and released an open source Exchange replacement. The exciting part is a front end that uses AJAX. There is an impressive flash demo, you can download the source or try out a "live" version of the code yourself." Interestingly, this open source system seems to be very similar to the recent Yahoo announcement covered on Slashdot.

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  1. Flash Demo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I really love how their flash demo gives a great demonstration of the product and what it can do...

  2. Crap by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: -1, Troll
    Zimbra is obviously crap. How can I tell? The foremost feature of their software is its own implementation. Zimbra is open-source. Zimbra is browser-based. Zimbra uses JavaScript. Zimbra uses XML. Zimbra is asynchronous. Zimba runs in your browser.

    Who fucking cares?

    You can always tell a program is crap when its page on sourceforge starts with "FrobWiz is a multithreaded c++ blah blah blah." If they lead with the implementation details, the features must be unremarkable. That looks to be the situation here: it's like Outlook Express, on crack, and running in Mozilla. Whoop de doo.

  3. sort of off topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But I find it appropriate that this article is immediately above "Why Students Are Leaving Engineering"

    I used to work with the founder of Zimbra at another company, and his constant and relentless political moves to further his career at the expense of others was really tiring... and made a lot of good engineers bitter and tired.

    Yeah it's dog-eat-dog world, you have to look out for yourself, blah-blah-blah, whatever... but the long hours of engineering don't make me want to leave, it's guys like that.

    With that said, the product looks okay, best of luck to them.

  4. Suck it Down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Promoting open source software encourages people to stop paying for quality products and exchange it for poorly-written applications written in PERL by cracked-up commie Russian teenagers in socialist basement sweat-shops. It puts good honest American workers out of a job as companies change to these so-called solutions, and then cripples American infrastructure as these poorly-coded, bug-ridden pieces of European socialst shit are found to be incompatible with American software.

    Always remember, Open Source is TERRORISM! Bush should invade Europe and teach those socialist fucks that trying to bring down America with their illegal rewrites of honest, secure Microsoft products WILL NOT WORK! Stupid commie Euro-fucks, we should drop The Bomb on their capitalism-repressing regimes!

    Linux Torvalds belongs in GITMO! Every true patriot knows it - why should we give him a trial when we all know he's guilty?