{"id":114,"date":"2009-01-21T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2009\/01\/21\/zimbra-hits-20-million-paid-mailboxes\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T08:31:33","slug":"zimbra-hits-20-million-paid-mailboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2009\/01\/zimbra-hits-20-million-paid-mailboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbra hits 20 million paid mailboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last I checked in June, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\/\">Zimbra<\/a>, Yahoo&#8217;s open-source e-mail and calendar software, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-9957786-16.html\" title=\"Will 11 million paid Zimbra mailboxes add up to $66 million? -- Monday, Jun 2, 2008\">was at 11 million paid mailboxes<\/a>.  This was a healthy jump from <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/openresource\/archives\/2007\/05\/zimbra_adds_yet.html\">8 million paid mailboxes in May 2007<\/a> and the 4 million paid mailboxes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/10\/17\/zimbra-4-million-paid-mailboxes-and-counting\/\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em> reported<\/a> back in October 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevarguy.com\/2009\/01\/19\/zimbra-email-thriving-under-yahoos-ownership\/\">The VAR Guy reported there are 20 million paid mailboxes for Zimbra<\/a>, a massive increase in roughly seven months.  It&#8217;s likely that a big chunk of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rev2.org\/2007\/05\/13\/comcast-to-offer-users-zimbra-plaxo-integration\/\">came from Zimbra&#8217;s deal with Comcast<\/a>. Still, that is amazing momentum.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned the other day that a significant customer uptake for Zimbra would be much <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10145045-16.html\" title=\"Lotus Notes swaps customers with Microsoft Exchange -- Saturday, Jan 17, 2009\">more meaningful than IBM and Microsoft trading customers back and forth<\/a>. Well, 20 million paid mailboxes spread over 30,000 customers is much more significant than IBM beating its chest over nabbing 5 million mailboxes from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Could Zimbra be the foundation for an enterprise challenge from Yahoo?  I wouldn&#8217;t rule it out.<\/p>\n<p>However, to get there Zimbra\/Yahoo has an uphill challenge, as a big percentage of Zimbra&#8217;s customers fall into the education and small- and medium-size business markets. It&#8217;s a hard sell to get enterprises to swap out their e-mail systems, and the standard open-source entry point (department-level deployments) doesn&#8217;t work for e-mail (unless, of course, the customer wants to scale out with <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.cisco.com\/dlls\/2008\/corp_082708.html\">Cisco&#8217;s Linux-based PostPath drop-in Exchange replacement<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Yahoo\/Zimbra should focus on building PostPath-esque drop-in Exchange integration?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Source: news.cnet.com<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>About author:<\/em> Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8300-13505_1-16.html\">CNET Blog Network<\/a> and is not an employee of CNET. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8301-13505_1-9888440-16.html?tag=mncol;txt\">Disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last I checked in June, Zimbra, Yahoo&#8217;s open-source e-mail and calendar software, was at 11 million paid mailboxes. This was a healthy jump from 8 million paid mailboxes in May 2007 and the 4 million paid mailboxes TechCrunch reported back in October 2006. Well, on Monday The VAR Guy reported there are 20 million paid<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2009\/01\/zimbra-hits-20-million-paid-mailboxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Zimbra hits 20 million paid mailboxes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-working-tips","category-zimbra","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}