Talk:Zimbra

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of Computing WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to computers and computing. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received an rating on the importance scale.

Contents

[edit] Reads like an ad

This page reads a lot like an advertisement. The weasel words and POV needs to be cleaned up. Until then, I'm sticking a warning label on it. Oberiko 22:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

yeah, but it wouldn't be that hard to clean outthe weasel words. Most of the information is accurate otherwise. It may need some citations as well. Davejenk1ns 23:41, 17 November 2006 (UTC

please be more specific, only section that is really new is the web 2.0 area i added after i saw the wsj piece. i could add other articles about web2 / oss... other than that it reads like a spec of what it does...

The Web 2.0 stuff is really unnecessary, and completely off topic. That's what double brackets are for, so that if they want to know about it, they click. 151.151.73.168 20:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Company vs. Product

So is this article about the product Zimbra or about the company Zimbra, Inc.? The infobox on the page is a Template:Infobox Software type. If their is consensus about that the company is the focus, I'll change the infobox to the Template:Infobox Company and move discussion of the product down to a section (i.e. their "flagship product") Cander0000 21:48, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Oppose, read the intro, is a groupware product, so the template is correct.Mion 21:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. The company is becoming part of Yahoo! and the article is about the product ... richi 22:30, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Thoughts then on adding a bit about their v5 development? -mcode 19:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I had contact with a sales rep from Zimbra. They told us about some limitations/features. Feel free to add stuff from it.

  • It is primarily Java.
  • We can install on RHEL 4
  • We do not run on Red Hat Linux 9, only RHEL 4 & 5. RedHat 9 ships with a different kernel, which is not supported by Zimbra.
  • You can use calendar per employee and utilize resources (conference rooms, conference #’s, etc).
  • We support tasks in Outlook 2003. Tasks in the Web UI won’t come until Summer 2007. - tasks are now in 5.0
  • We support and use Open LDAP. We sync natively with PDAs if you purchase Zimbra Mobile.
  • We support just mail on Thunderbird, if you wanted shared calendars, contacts, and tasks, you’d have to use Outlook 2003 or the web ui (less tasks.)
  • Yes, you can import via CSV

--Blonkm 13:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Blonkm, system requirements change too often to post on wikipedia... Their site to track supported platforms/operating systems is http://pm.zimbra.com -mcode (talk) 08:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fork

Download the source and fork while you can, before Microsoft buys Yahoo and stops Zimbra, remember Hulu? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.43.236.132 (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Out of date

Licensing information is out of date. 204.147.183.222 (talk) 11:40, 11 March 2008 (UTC)