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Zimbra
Type Subsidiary

Owner Yahoo LLC

(2007–2010)
VMware (2010–present)

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Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto,
California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007[1] , and subsequently purchased by
VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010[2] . The software consists of both client and server components. Two
versions of Zimbra are available: an open-source version, and a commercially supported version ("Zimbra Network")
with closed-source components such as a proprietary MAPI connector to Outlook for calendar synchronization.
The ZCS Web Client is a full-featured collaboration suite that supports email, group calendars and document sharing
using an Ajax web interface that enables tool tips, drag-and-drop items, and right-click menus in the UI. Also
included are advanced searching capabilities and date relations, online document authoring, "Zimlet" mashups and a
full administration UI. It is written using the Zimbra Ajax Toolkit.
The ZCS Server uses several open source projects (see the section, Included open source projects). It exposes a
SOAP application programming interface to all its functionality and also is an IMAP and POP3 server. The server
runs on many distributions of Linux as well as on Mac OS X.
ZCS can synchronize mail, contacts, and calendar items with open-source mail clients such as Novell Evolution and
also with proprietary clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, but only through proprietary connectors
available exclusively in the commercially supported version. Zimbra also provides native two-way sync to many
mobile devices (Nokia Eseries, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android).
According to former Zimbra President and CTO Scott Dietzen, the name for Zimbra is derived from the song "I
Zimbra" by Talking Heads[3] .

Software license
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) source code is available under the terms of the Zimbra Public License [4] (ZPL)
which is derived from the Common Public License (CPL) and Mozilla Public License (MPL), and accordingly
requires that modifications made to existing files, if distributed, be provided in source code form to the recipients
under the same license. It also includes a clause requiring trademarks, logos, etc. be preserved making it an
"attribution-style" open source license.
Categorically it is similar to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Common Public Attribution License [5] (CPAL).
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Included open source projects

The ZCS Server utilizes open source projects such as:
• Postfix
• MySQL
• OpenLDAP
• Apache Tomcat (replaced by Jetty since 5.0)
• Lucene
• Verity
• ClamAV
• SpamAssassin
• AMaViS and Amavisd-new
• DSPAM
• Aspell
• James
• Sieve
• Perdition mail retrieval proxy (until 4.5)
• nginx (since 5.0)

See also
• Ajax
• Atmail
• Comparison of feed aggregators
• Groupware
• Online office suite
• Zarafa Collaboration Platform
• List of applications with iCalendar support

References
[1] Zimbra.com (2007-09-17). "Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra" (http:/ / www. zimbra. com/ about/ yahoo_acquires_zimbra. html). Zimbra.com. .
Retrieved 2010-05-30.
[2] Vance, Ashlee (2010-01-13). "VMware Gently Nudges Microsoft with a Zimbra - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com" (http:/ / bits. blogs. nytimes.
com/ 2010/ 01/ 13/ vmware-gently-nudges-microsoft-with-a-zimbra/ ). Bits.blogs.nytimes.com. . Retrieved 2010-05-30.
[3] Swisher, Kara (2009-04-24). "Yahoo Hires Adobe Vet Lamkin; Dietzen Takes New Strategy Post | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD"
(http:/ / kara. allthingsd. com/ 20090424/
yahoo-hires-adobe-vet-lamkin-to-run-communications-and-communities-unit-as-dietzen-moves-to-strategy-post/ ). Kara.allthingsd.com. .
Retrieved 2010-05-30.
[4] http:/ / www. zimbra. com/ license/
[5] http:/ / www. opensource. org/ licenses/ cpal_1. 0
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External links
• Official site: blog, community, forums, wiki, demo, download, etc. (http://www.zimbra.com/)
• Review: Zimbra Webmail (http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/02/23/review-zimbra-webmail)
• Yahoo! Public License 1.1 (http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.1.html)
• Pre-integrated Zimbra server (open source edition) (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/zimbra)
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Article Sources and Contributors

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