Open Source Vendor Zarafa Solves Apple’s iOS Problems

Microsoft Exchange, an essential component of many IT environments, has long been a thorn in the side of system administrators who would like to consider open source alternatives to proprietary software. But Zarafa, an open source groupware platform, is rapidly emerging as a formidable alternative to Exchange.

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, mobile messaging and open source groupware specialist, has succeeded in fixing the so called iOS6 meeting ‘hijacking’ bug in Z-Push [ http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/ ].

Pop quiz for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, Surface Pro and Surface RT initiatives: What is the fastest path to potential success? The VAR Guy’s answer: Instead of attacking the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPad markets, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should muster all of its mobile forces against Google Android. Immediately.

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.

Here’s are words I never thought I’d write: Netflix works on Linux. Not officially, of course: Instead, it relies on sophisticated hacks to the Wine compatibility layer.

The biggest change I’ve seen in the tech industry in the past decade isn’t social media, cloud computing, big data, consumerization or even mobile. It’s the mainstream acceptance of open source. Even 10 years ago open source was controversial. Back then “open vs. proprietary” arguments would still erupt at meetings and parties.

What if all software was open source? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program. A University of Washington project may make this possible. “Microsoft and Apple aren’t going to open up all their stuff. But they all create programs that put pixels on [...]

Zarafa, the fastest growing commercial Linux-based groupware company in Europe, has benefited from the growing demand of organizations for integrated open source software. In the last four months dozens of software vendors and developers in open source projects have integrated or packaged software to Zarafa’s open source email and calendar solution.