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[News] [OSS] Comcast's E-mail Service Will Be Run by Open Source Software

Comcast picks Zimbra for online e-mail

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| Broadband and cable TV company Comcast has hired open-source software
| company Zimbra to power a service called SmartZone that provides
| subscribers with e-mail and other online services.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6181737.html


Related:

Zimbra to offer Ubuntu Linux support

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| Zimbra's server software is Java-based software that competes
| chiefly with Microsoft Exchange. People who need to access it
| to use e-mail, calendars and contact lists can use a basic Web
| browser interface or a fancier Ajax-based interface.
| Alternatively, more conventional e-mail software such as
| Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird work.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6181361.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


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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