Zimbra also has an Outlook connector. To end users it's invisible that they are 
on a Zimbra Server instead of and Exchange server. I switched us here over to a 
Scalix backend which is similar to Zimbra. 
Functionality wise for the end users is nearly identical to exchange. But for 
me on the back-end it runs much more smoothly.
Kevin
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VMWare Aquires Zimbra

Zimbra has it's own client, Zimbra Desktop:
http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

I've never tried it myself. Judging from the screenshots, I bet it's just a 
version of the web client with offline sync'ing, probably built Mozilla Prism 
or something similar. Personally, I think they probably should have just 
invested their time/money in developing Lightning.

Asa

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Flint,
>
> Zimbra might be an "Exchange" killer, but it still needs a client, and 
> outside web-based, there's nothing that competes with Outlook.  That 
> aside, it seems odd that VMWare/EMC would have any interest in going 
> after the server stack above the hypervisor.
>
> Stan
>

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