Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Managing enterprise e-mail has become a major challenge for system administrators, with its soaring costs of managing storage, security, and availability.  That is why Zimbra has developed an open source messaging server and client called the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.  This solution was built with a focus on manageability, scalability, compatibility, and performance.  Unicon is a Zimbra Value-Added Reseller (VAR) providing a host of Zimbra products to academic institutions via direct sales, as an ASP hosted service, and as a dedicated hosted solution.

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What is Zimbra?

Zimbra provides a state-of-the-art collaboration solution for modern-day educational environments.  With the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, institutions can meet the highest-end needs of faculty and staff, while also taking advantage of innovative functionality, scalability, and cost efficiency that enables broad student and alumni populations to maximize their productivity.  Zimbra offers various open source solutions to meet the enterprise community needs for a variety of industries, including education, businesses, and service providers.  Finally, Zimbra is compatible with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary) including Linux and Mac OS X on the server side; Windows, Linux and Mac on the desktop; and Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers.

Advantages of Zimbra

Zimbra solves many of the problems facing administrators and their end-users. Here are some of the key advantages of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:

  • Better reliability
  • Cost effective
  • Easy to maintain
  • Elegant experience
  • Flexible
  • Compatible with Windows, Apple and Linux computers

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The Power of Open Source

While the most prominent appeal of open source is that it is a low cost alternative to proprietary software, there are many other advantages to adopting open source technologies:

  • Avoids vendor lock-in
  • Easy to customize
  • Promotes collaboration and innovation among peers
  • Achieves economies of scale with community-based sharing and contribution
  • Supports project, team, and code transparency
  • Allows wide range of uses with open licensing