Zimbra Front Page News in WSJ

Zimbra hit the front page of the Wall Street Journal on Monday.  Normally a CEO doesn't make front page of the Journal until he does an IPO or goes to prison. Satish, well done!  This is even better than Scott's bobblehead doll! 

I've been a big fan of Zimbra for a long time.  They've continued to invest in building out a great product line with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) a highly scalable open source email and calendaring suite that now has more than 4 million mailboxes under subscription with customers like H&R Block, Raytheon, ZipRealty, Interim Healthcare and others.

Zimbra's story in the Journal may not be news to longtime open source fans, but to me it's a sign of how mainstream open source has become.  Zimbra is a good example of a disruptive software company that delivers better bang for the buck than the closed source incumbents by using open source as part of their strategy.  Microsoft's Exchange is a decent product, but it's a tarpit.  Once you start with Exchange, you're stuck with it, stuck on Windows and pretty much stuck with Outlook.  Zimbra gives users an alternative that is not only better, it's cross-platform, it supports a broader range of clients, it has a great Ajax Web 2.0 user interface, it's got better scalability and it's cheaper.  Also, it's based on MySQL.  What's not to love?

• WSJ: Front Page, Software Upstarts A New Force (subscription)
• Zimbra: Products, Demos, Downloads, Roadmap

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Glad to learn, thanks for the info