Zimbra purchased by VMWare

Zimbra to Join VMware: 2010 Will Accelerate Growth
Posted in News by Jim Morrisroe on January 12th, 2010

VMware and ZimbraBig news for Zimbra – we’re excited and looking forward to starting a new chapter as part of VMware. We want to thank Yahoo! for helping Zimbra usher in a period of phenomenal growth over the past 2 years. And we are proud to have contributed to the current and future success of Yahoo! during this time as well. Zimbra’s technologies have and will continue to play a role in Yahoo!’s communications services, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Calendar. The Yahoo! team is very happy for us, our customers and our community as we prepare to enter this new era. We owe Yahoo! a great deal of appreciation for their support.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in San Mateo, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007.[1] The software consists of both client and server components. Two versions of Zimbra are available: an open-source version, and a commercially supported version ("Zimbra Network") with closed-source components such as a proprietary connector to Outlook for calendar synchronization.

The ZCS Web Client is a full-featured collaboration suite that supports email and group calendars using an Ajax web interface that enables tool tips, drag-and-drop items, and right-click menus in the UI. Also included are advanced searching capabilities and date relations, online document authoring, "Zimlet" mashups and a full administration UI. It is written using the 'Zimbra Ajax Toolkit.

The ZCS Server uses several open source projects (see the section, Included open source projects). It exposes a SOAP application programming interface to all its functionality and also is an IMAP and POP3 server. The server runs on many distributions of Linux as well as on Mac OS X.

ZCS can synchronize mail, contacts, and calendar items with open-source mail clients such as Novell Evolution and also with proprietary clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, but only through proprietary connectors available exclusively in the commercially supported version. Zimbra also provides native two-way sync to many mobile devices (Nokia Eseries, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone with 2.0 software).

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Zimbra purchased by VMware
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Zimbra to Join VMware: 2010 Will Accelerate Growth
Posted in News by Jim Morrisroe on January 12th, 2010

VMware and ZimbraBig news for Zimbra – we’re excited and looking forward to starting a new chapter as part of VMware. We want to thank Yahoo! for helping Zimbra usher in a period of phenomenal growth over the past 2 years. And we are proud to have contributed to the current and future success of Yahoo! during this time as well. Zimbra’s technologies have and will continue to play a role in Yahoo!’s communications services, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Calendar. The Yahoo! team is very happy for us, our customers and our community as we prepare to enter this new era. We owe Yahoo! a great deal of appreciation for their support.

First and foremost, we want to reassure our community, customers and partners that we stay 100% committed to our mission. Together with VMware, we will accelerate our investments in Zimbra and strive to be even better at building and supporting the best open source email and collaboration software in the market. As always, we will work tirelessly to strengthen and grow our business relationships and service our customers and community.

Source: http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2010/01/zimbra-to-jo...

As it is now official, we wish the Zimbra Team and all Users the best for the future of this great software masterpiece.

The Benefits of Zimbra getting a Virtualization boost through vmware will be nice.

Zimbra Virtual Appliance at VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/94533

Zimbra has partnered with VMware to create a virtual application of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.

VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/
Zimbra Forums
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12

Basic Tips and Suggestions:
To start the Zimbra virtual application - install in VMware Player or VMware Server and
start up the Zimbra Collaboration Suite virtual application.
Once the application has started you can login to the administrative interface.

Log in:
user root
password zimbra
ifconfig eth0 to get the IP address

From your desktop on the host machine:
open a browser
enter https://examplea.com:7071/zimbraAdmin to get to the admin console
user admin@localhost.localdomain
password zimbra

TO get to the client
enter http://examplea.com/
user zimbra
password zimbra

source: http://files.zimbra.com/website/docs/Zimbra%20VMware%20Insta...