July 14, 2020, Vicenza, Italy - The world's leading developer of extensions for open source software Zextras has released its own version of the popular Zimbra mail server with download from its own repository and support. Zextras solutions add collaboration, communications, storage support, mobile devices, real-time backup and recovery, and multi-tenant infrastructure administration to the Zimbra mail server.
Zimbra is a well-known open source mail server used by millions of users in all sectors of the economy, government and educational institutions, service providers around the world. The Zimbra trademark is owned by the American company Synacor. In April 2020, Synacor changed its open source policy. Starting with the release of Zimbra 9, the project stopped publishing the Zimbra Open Source Edition and limited itself to releasing only the commercial version of the product. This caused a backlash from the Zimbra open source community, and under pressure from them, Synacor opened up the Zimbra 9 codes to build and maintain their own builds.
In this situation, Zextras came to the aid of Zimbra OSE users, which, thanks to many years of development experience for this server, created its own build of Zimbra 9 Open Source from Zextras and decided to independently support it in the future. A build of Zextras based on the source code provided by Synacor without any significant changes. Thanks to the position of Zextras, users around the world were able to defend their right to use the latest versions of a popular product with expert support.
In addition to supporting its own branch of Zimbra 9 Open Source, Zextras has pleased users with new product features: cascading multiple emails in the web client, advanced calendar and task functions, Zimbra chat, and much more.
Zextras CEO Paolo Storti commented on his decision to support Zimbra Open Source: “In the late 90s, I started working as a Linux system administrator. Later focused on providing open source email solutions. It was a time of hard work. Integrating and maintaining many disparate components was a constant challenge, and nights and days were spent trying to find the right solution. Then came Zimbra, and that was the turning point for me: I immediately liked the opportunity to offer a complete solution where all the parts fit together perfectly. As a fan of communication systems and an advocate of Open Source, I found everything I dreamed of in Zimbra. This is the reason I provided my Zimbra 9 build to continue a project that I strongly believe in.”
→ You can Zimbra 9 Open Source from Zextras on our website
is the world's leading developer for the Zimbra OSE mail server. It is a company with ten years of experience and a presence in all regions of the world. Zextras Suite adds text and video chat, redundancy, document collaboration, support for mobile devices and disk storage to Zimbra OSE with a high degree of reliability and economical use of computing resources. The solution is used in the largest companies, telecom operators and cloud service providers by more than 20 million users.
For all questions related to Zextras Suite, you can contact the Representative of Zextras Ekaterina Triandafilidi by e-mail [email protected]
Source: habr.com