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Most commercial software today depends on open source software. The commercial software might be using an underlying open source platform, or it might be incorporating open source components, or it might be provided as a commercial open source product itself.
From an ignorant American perspective, the European market may seem like a more natural fit for open source software than the United States. After all, aren’t those countries across the Atlantic populated by liberty-obsessed socialists with a natural affinity for sharing everything? To be sure, this view is hopelessly stereotypical.
Zarafa, the new groupware standard in the still growing European Linux server market, today announced that its open source email and calendar software has reached the next level in secure mobile communications.
The primary objective of open source software company Zarafa has been to develop a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange. But simply replicating groupware functionality is not enough to achieve that goal — Zarafa also needs to create enterprise-class security solutions for its products.
Zarafa, the European drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for email, calendaring, collaboration and tasks, has received high grades in SOS Open Source, a methodology created by open source strategist Roberto Galoppini, to evaluate and select open source software.
At this year’s CeBIT (1-5 March, Hannover), Zarafa, the leading European provider of open source groupware and collaboration software, will show that the Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) has grown to the European open source groupware standard.
Recent conversations at OSCON, which I've attended since 2004, as well as observations through talks with vendors, users and developers in open source all indicate a common theme: With commercial successes for open source software come some community growing pains.
Zarafa, the leading European provider of open source groupware and collaboration software, has launched Z-Admin 1.0 [1]. This web based administration interface enables administrators to install and maintain a groupware server, powered by Zarafa, without the need for knowledge of Linux or the command line.
Today, at CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Mobile Messaging and Groupware Specialist Zarafa announces that the Brazilian software security company BluePex will integrate Zarafa’s Collaboration Platform into their appliance solutions stack (1). Zarafa will be added as the only groupware messaging solution to the BluePex’ product range.
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