Open Source Messaging & Collaboration: Zarafa
SOS Open Source analyzed Zarafa, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, maintained by the homonymous company headquartered in the Netherlands (Delft) with offices in Germany and Brasil. The Zarafa Summer Camp 2011 was the perfect venue to share our findings around Zarafa (presentation), if you missed our keynote read below to know more this open source messaging and collaboration platform.
Zarafa was released as open source about three years ago, but before that it was already considered a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange, and its code base results mature and stable (information inferred from the public bug-tracking system). A book specialized on Zarafa is on the way, case-studies are available (also from large solution providers) along with a number of forums (even in French and Portoguese). Zarafa popularity compares well with other European competitors, especially in some countries (e.g. , Austria, Germany, the Netherlands). »
SOS Open Source News: Redmine, Zarafa and more
Next week at the Red Hat Open Source Day will be a good opportunity to meet in person, I’ll be charing the final round table with Red Hat and Platinum/Gold sponsors.
SOS Open Source team will be at the upcoming Zarafa Summer Camp 2011, to keynote about Zarafa ecosystem on the 30th of June.
We eventually ended a customization of Redmine for a customer, developed after an evaluation of open source project management tools. As soon as possible we’ll share some customizations, included a long awaited plug-in to assign issues to groups.
After our guide about how to choose Linux distributions, we are working on other comparisons, stay tuned!
How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year
SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.
SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls. »
