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2 July - Zarafa Summercamp Cement Position at Top of European Open Source Vendor Events
The Zarafa Summercamp 2010 came to an end on Friday the 18th of June – a 2 day conference which again drew a lot of interest, cementing its position at the top of European open source vendor events, through even higher attendance numbers than in 2009 and intensified contributions of community members and partners.
This event showed itself once again to be a magnet for developers, technology and business partners, customers and journalists from all over the world. More than 250 people gathered in Brussels to be updated about Zarafa’s growth and product vision and got the news about the Zarafa Archiving (ZA) and the launch of its integration framework, http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Python_API, firsthand.
Zarafa CEO Brian Joseph,strongly believes that Zarafa is on track in growth: “The open source ecosystem was well represented at our Summercamp and really boosted it. In a recent worldwide study of the VAR Guy on open source business, http://www.thevarguy.com/the-open-source-50,
Zarafa was ranked 11th. This shows that Zarafa has made its step to the top of open source vendors”.
After the inspiring keynote speech of Steven Schuurman, co-founder of SpringSource and CEO of JTeam, open source integrators discussed in round tables and workshops their best practices like the usage of SSD storage.
The second, more technical, day of the Summercamp started with the outcome of the Zarafa Virtual Machine Competition, initiated by Helmuth Neuberger, CEO of Zarafa Germany: "Due to virtual machines it was possible, in a few days, to download and test very complicated integrated solutions around the Zarafa Collaboration Platform. To install and test the software from 10 partners the old way, by installing from scratch, might need a month’s work from a very experienced technician. By using virtual machines 80% was done by junior support people and the jury only needed a few hours to decide. This shows exactly the strength of the virtualization concept”. Three winners in three separate categories presented their VM: LINET Services (category: Up-sell & scale-up), bitbone AG (category: Suitability for daily use) and Collax (category: Cool add-ons).
Zarafa also took the opportunity to hand the yearly Zarafa Summercamp Awards:
1.Best Community Contribution - Robert Scheck
2.Best Integration Contribution - Catworkx
3.Zarafa Partner of the Year - Millenux
4.Most Contributing Partner to Zarafa Suggestions and Tools - Uniwan
5.Zarafa Evangelist of the Year - Sander Mittertreiner, Dutch Patent Office
For more information about the Zarafa Summercamp and photos visit: http://www.zarafa.com/summercamp2010/photos..
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Press contacts
Zarafa
Mirjam Scholtes, Communication & PR Manager
Tel: +31 (0)15 2517710, mobile +31 (0)6 55114984
Email: m.scholtes@zarafa.com
ABOUT ZARAFA
Zarafa is a fast-growing international Linux-based mobile messaging and groupware vendor.
The Zarafa Collaboration Suite is an open and compatible groupware platform that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. It includes IMAP/POP3 and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers and a web-based access by means of an AJAX-based web client.
It is the only groupware platform that includes open source ActiveSync compatibility, which enables organizations to have remote synchronization and push mail for iPhones, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Nokia’s Mail for Exchange. Zarafa also offers full integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Zarafa’s head office is in Delft, The Netherlands and the company also has offices in Stuttgart, Hannover and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). It has a overall 5,000 customers, most large customers in government with enterprise and SMB segments making up the rest. More information is available at http://www.zarafa.com.
Follow Zarafa on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zarafagroupware.
18 June - Zarafa's New Integration Framework to Support Wave of Open Source Integrations
At the second day of its Summercamp, the Dutch mobile messaging and collaboration specialist Zarafa launches an integration framework that will give the open source community and commercial integrations with Zarafa's Collaboration Platform a next big boost.
Next to the recently packaging with community distributions like Fedora, Zarafa reports that 50% of the open source Zarafa contributions are initiated and effectuated by commercial integrators, at the request of their customers. Today catWorkX, Zarafa's new German Gold Partner, will showcase its open source integrations like the Jira plugin and the LDAP Connector at Zarafa's Summercamp. The framework of this Connector offers LDAP based access to all Zarafa contacts in all user stores as well as in Public Folders. With this Connector it is possible to use a wide range of native fat clients like Thunderbird, Mac Mail and Mac Addressbook to act as a complete non-MAPI Zarafa Client.
Zarafa facilitates the boost of open source and commercial integrations by launching an integration framework, http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Python_API, based on Swig, which makes it easy to connect calendars, mail, contacts and tasks to any developer language. The first examples are worked out in Python.
The Zarafa Python Language bindings allow programmers to use the high-level Python programming language to interface with Zarafa's core technology MAPI. This enables developers to rapidly create tools, applications and plugins for the existing Zarafa Collaboration Platform. And entry-level engineers can use it to easily create programs like performance analysis or e-mail filtering without needing in-depth knowledge of complex programming languages.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Press contacts
Zarafa
Mirjam Scholtes, Communication & PR Manager
Tel: +31 (0)15 2517710, mobile +31 (0)6 55114984
Email: m.scholtes@zarafa.com
ABOUT ZARAFA
Zarafa is a fast-growing international Linux-based mobile messaging and groupware vendor.
The Zarafa Collaboration Suite is an open and compatible groupware platform that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. It includes IMAP/POP3 and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers and a web-based access by means of an AJAX-based web client.
It is the only groupware platform that includes open source ActiveSync compatibility, which enables organizations to have remote synchronization and push mail for iPhones, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Nokia’s Mail for Exchange. Zarafa also offers full integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Zarafa’s head office is in Delft, The Netherlands and the company also has offices in Stuttgart, Hannover and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). It has a overall 5,000 customers, most large customers in government with enterprise and SMB segments making up the rest. More information is available at http://www.zarafa.com.
Follow Zarafa on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zarafagroupware.
17 June - Zarafa’s New E-mail Archiving Enables Customers to Optimize Storage Capacity
Presented to more than 200 Zarafa Summercamp participants in Brussels
Today, at the first day of its yearly held and well visited Summercamp, the Dutch mobile messaging and collaboration specialist Zarafa presents its new Zarafa Archiver (ZA).
By using ZA, mail store sizes are minimized by moving old messages to slow and thus cheap storage. Once a message is archived it can be deleted from the original store. Optionally a stub to the archive can be created that allows a user to actually see the archived message and open it as if it were a normal message. An alternate way of opening archived messages is to open the archive as a shared store in Outlook or the Webaccess. Follow this hyperlink to see what an archived e-mail in an Inbox looks like:
Zarafa's archiving solution leverages existing technology used by Zarafa; once installed on the server, it requires no additional software rollout and uses existing Zarafa configuration and setup procedures for setting up the archive. This also includes support for compressed attachments and single sign-on. ZA also enables to search in parallel using the resources of multiple servers arranged in a cluster. Therefore, this solution is typically interesting for enterprises with thousands of users.
Brian Joseph, CEO of Zarafa, and Steve Hardy, CTO of Zarafa will showcase ZA to more than 200 enthusiastic and devoted Summercamp participants ranging from community members to business and technology partners, journalists and customers from all over the world. Zarafa is organising this 2-day, international event for the third year in a row. Besides archiving, this year’s main topics are virtualisation, a preview of Zarafa Webaccess 7, customer views on migrations and open source community Webaccess integrations. Read more about Zarafa’s Summercamp: http://www.zarafa.com/summercamp2010.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Press contacts
Zarafa
Mirjam Scholtes, Communication & PR Manager
Tel: +31 (0)15 2517710, mobile +31 (0)6 55114984
Email: m.scholtes@zarafa.com
ABOUT ZARAFA
Zarafa is a fast-growing international Linux-based mobile messaging and groupware vendor.
The Zarafa Collaboration Suite is an open and compatible groupware platform that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. It includes IMAP/POP3 and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers and a web-based access by means of an AJAX-based web client.
It is the only groupware platform that includes open source ActiveSync compatibility, which enables organizations to have remote synchronization and push mail for iPhones, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Nokia’s Mail for Exchange. Zarafa also offers full integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Zarafa’s head office is in Delft, The Netherlands and the company also has offices in Stuttgart, Hannover and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). It has a overall 5,000 customers, most large customers in government with enterprise and SMB segments making up the rest. More information is available at http://www.zarafa.com. Follow Zarafa on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zarafagroupware.
10 June - Zarafa Collaboration Platform 6.40 Goes Gold
Full text searching by Lucene, new Today View, extended Address Book
Zarafa, the European mobile messaging and collaboration specialist, proudly announces the immediate availability of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) 6.40.0. The community version[1] and the Release Highlights[2] can be found on Zarafa’s website.
Valuable community feedback, in the form of bug reports and patches, has been used for various improvements. Due to this feedback Zarafa has fixed more than 200 issues since the beta release at the beginning of 2010.
Steve Hardy, CTO of Zarafa: “The highlight of ZCP 6.40.0 is an integrated full-text search using Lucene. This enables customers and organizations that use the community version not only to search in text but also in email attachments”.
The Zarafa webaccess has been updated with a Today View [3], keyboard shortcuts, a Calendar List View and a Delegation Wizard. The Address Book is extended with the possibility to create Contacts and dynamic Distribution and Address Lists. From now on Active Users, Inactive Users, Resources, Groups, Security Groups, Dynamic Groups, Companies and Address are being supported.
Since February 2010, the Fedora Project is shipping the 6.30 series of the ZCP. The active Fedora releases 12 and 13 will ship Zarafa 6.40.0 as well as the Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases 4 and 5. EPEL 6 beta (for the upcoming RHEL 6 in autumn, which is RHEL 6 beta right now) will also get Zarafa 6.40.0 as soon as possible: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Zarafa. The ZCP 6.40.0 is also available through the Canonical Partner repository for the popular Ubuntu distribution: http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/z/zarafa/. Mandriva, a third free Linux distribution project, includes Zarafa as well.
In less than one week the 2-day, yearly held, international Zarafa Summercamp will take place. On Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th of June, Zarafa will welcome technology and business partners, community members, customers and journalists in hotel Bloom, Brussels. Visit http://www.zarafa.com/summercamp 2010 for more details and registration.
[1] Download ZCP 6.40.0 (community version):
http://www.zarafa.com/download-zarafa
[2] Release Highlights ZCP 6.40:
http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/release/docs/640_release_highlights.txt
[3] Screenshot Today View:
http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/en/today-view-zarafa-6-40-0.jpg
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Press contacts
Zarafa
Mirjam Scholtes, Communication & PR Manager
t: +31 (0)15 2517710, m: +31 (0) 6 55114984
Email: m.scholtes@zarafa.com
ABOUT ZARAFA
Zarafa is the fastest growing, commercial, Linux-based groupware company in Europe that enables Linux servers to share Outlook calendar and e-mail. Zarafa allows web-based access by means of an AJAX-based web client. Many governments and corporations run with Zarafa.
It is the only groupware platform that includes open source ActiveSync compatibility, which enables organizations to have remote synchronization and push mail for Windows Mobile, Google Android, Nokia’s Mail for Exchange and iPhones. Zarafa also offers full integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Zarafa’s Head Office is based in The Netherlands and the company also has offices in Stuttgart, Hannover and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Zarafa is the Arabic word for giraffe. Like a giraffe, Zarafa has the overview in the landscape of other applications to collaborate together in an open and friendly way.
More information is available at http://www.zarafa.com.
Follow Zarafa on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zarafagroupware.
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