John and I will be in Europe(Amsterdam) next week for EuroOSCON. So if your around or plan to be drop us an email and we can meet up.
kevinh ~at~ zimbra ~dot~ com
UPDATE: John’s Talk
Wanted to thank all you fine folks who spread the word about Zimbra – it totally pumped the team up – for that we are eternally grateful. A lot of people are asking about whether Zimbra will be hosted and if so, for whom? Zimbra will absolutely be hosted for businesses and, yes, Zimbra will be hosted for individual email. When? I hope real soon. Many people asked me how long it took to develop Zimbra – well it took almost 2 years of coding by some amazingly smart people – some of whom crossed lines from being server programmers to being UI programmers – a testament to the truly smart. I wish I could demo the server as easily as I can demo the client – all I can say is that we did an insane amount of innovation on the server side and specifically around storage management and availability. And as far as the AJAX magic on the client side – well – more about that in another post ….
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Satish will be back on the stage tomorrow (well today ;)) for another demo at Web 2.0. So if you missed his first demo be sure to stop by and catch this one.
For those of you too far away from San Francisco you can check out the hosted demo for a personal test drive.
We’ve been reading what folks are saying about Zimbra. In the forums, news, blogs, and even Slashdot. The biggest mis-conception about Zimbra is that we’re just a flashy AJAX client for reading email. While that’s true that we’ve got a great AJAX client it’s not all that Zimbra has to offer.
Nat got it right on, as did Steve. Zimbra is about changing the way folks communicate and manage email. Administrators of today’s current messaging systems tire over backup/restore procedures that take hours or are forced to recover an entire set of users rather than just a single mailbox. End users fight the mass of incoming mail with complex filters and foldering schemes. Zimbra is different. Admins now have the freedom of hot backups which allow them to do point in time recovery of a single mailbox. End users are freed from the endless sorting and can simply search across the entire mailbox for what they are looking for, no matter where the message is.
