We are now working with some of the Zimbra early adopters on larger-scale deployments, including enduser deployments upwards of 100 thousand mailboxes, and hosted/internet service provider deployments north of 1 million mailboxes. In general, the individual (per mailbox) profiles tends to be on the smaller side (typically, <100 messages/day, <200Mb average mailbox size), but the aggregate workloads are nevertheless substantial, and are helping prove out the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) for very-large scale distributed deployments.
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IE 6 is an inadequate platform for developing advanced Web 2.0 applications. I suspect that a number of hard core web application developers will nod their heads in agreement with this statement. From my experience, IE 6 is certainly more challenging to work with than some of its competitors, and it exhibits some very unpleasant behaviours that make it a difficult platform with which to develop advanced Web 2.0 applications.
Before I go further, I know some folks may be asking what exactly are “advanced Web 2.0 applications?” I describe them as the class of application making extensive use of AJAX and DHTML - which I like to, for convenience, group together under the AJAX umbrella - to provide a rich and compelling end user experience. Such applications can be easily identified by their ability to provide the flexibility, power, and richness of their desktop counterparts while at the same time bringing the power and benefits of the Web to the end user. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite’s web client as an example of such an application.
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Zimbra today released version 3.1
3.1 introduces MacOSX as a supported OS for the Network Edition.
We’ve also added the following new features:
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This blog entry has been burning a hole in my pocket for a few weeks, but it’s on the more esoteric topic of open source licensing, so those looking for exciting new tech ought to instead check our Ross’ blog on ALE (Ajax Linking & Embedding).
As most of probably already know, Zimbra chose the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for our open source licensing. One of the questions we are most asked by our friends at other open source efforts is why we chose the MPL. In the next breath they usually ask why we didn’t choose MPL’s even more popular cousin, the GNU General Public License (GPL), which we also considered very closely.
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Recently I had to write a document which required the inclusion of some images, a chart, and a few drawings in the text - something that modern word processors allow you to simply and readily do. In fact, the ability to embed and edit rich content directly in a document is actually a pretty handy and powerful feature; arguably one of the more important and enabling features of modern day office suites, such as OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.What is really nice is that the embedded content is saved along with the enclosing document. So for example, if I email a document to a colleague, then the embedded objects I have included into the document follow it to their destination. This embedding capability has traditionally been enabled by leveraging component object models such as Microsoft’s COM/DCOM or IBM’s DSOM and has been the domain of fat desktop applications and office suites.
Is it feasible to provide the same kind of embedding capabilities found in desktop applications in Ajax based applications? After some prototyping it is clear that it is possible.
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Scott will be speaking at Linux World Boston next week. So if you are in the area and would like to see some of the new things we’re working on drop by.
OSA11: Is your email stuck in 1996?
Ross, Roland and I will be presenting at JavaOne in San Francisco.
Leveraging Java™ Technology to Integrate Messaging With Web 2.0 Power
May 16 - 19, 2006
Moscone Center - San Francisco, CA
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