Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Zarafa
Back to the funny names, Zarafa has long been competing with Microsoft Exchange in the Linux world but is a newcomer to the world of open source. On September 18 Zarafa announced the core of its server product would be licensed under a GNU public license.
Zarafa, like Zimbra, aims squarely at providing a rich groupware environment without the expense of Exchange and with the stability of Linux. The expected mailboxes, webmail, calendar, contacts, tasks, global address book, public folders and more are all to be found.
Outlook is supported, and the webmail site also closely resembles Outlook to ensure users have no barriers to working with it swiftly. Your users will only be able to tell the difference between Zarafa and Exchange because Zarafa gives a more featured environment.
Zarafa integrates with Active Directory and LDAP-based environments. It offers brick level backup which makes it possible to restore a single mail message or folder or complete mailbox.
ActiveSync support is included meaning Windows Mobile devices and the Apple iPhone can be connected and synchronised over-the-air. BlackBerry support is expected within the coming months.
Zarafa is available in four editions. The first, the Community Edition, lacks tools for bricklevel backups, auto deployment and high availability tools but does provide the terrific collaboration and mail environment. Outlook support is limited to three users. Moving up, the Standard Edition adds bricklevel backups, and then the Professional and Enterprise editions give the lot. The difference between these two upper-level releases is that the Enterprise Edition offers support for multiple server environments.
The Community Edition is available for free, which is especially impressive when you consider that it offers Outlook connectivity, even if just for three users. The Standard Edition has a base price of 150 Euros and then a fee of 30 Euros per user. The Professional and Enterprise editions skip the base price and are charged at 28 Euros and 45 Euros per user respectively. Volume discounts are available.
Check out the online demo and be impressed by this genuine Exchange killer.
David Bass
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