Zimbra Going for Every College Campus; 200 and Counting - Rmail
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Zimbra has landed more than a few deals, with some 200 educational institutions in 15 different countries for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, in the past year, making it a pretty far-reaching host of applications. That puts the suite in the hands of about 33,000 students, faculty and staff, 600,000 mailboxes.
As Zimbra also provides open standards and a platform for developers, its tools can be integrated with some services that a lot of institutions already have established. Considering the huge switching costs of a university with a communications system to support its current and past students, faculty and staff, signing on a new service like Zimbra is a big deal. It looks like Yahoo should be pretty satisfied with its acquisition of Zimbra.
Should Zimbra maintain its relationships with these educational institutions and move forward with its Suite offerings, the provision of customized applications on a large scale could make Zimbra well established for the educational sector. Google is looking for swift moves into this space as well, offering presentations and other incentives to institutions that are willing to implement Google Apps.
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: AngelosConcerning Google moving their apps into the college sector - the company still needs to provide more functionality to disarm the trio of Word, Excel, Powerpoint or even to compete with a more flexible Zimbra platform. Also, when is a comprehensive, collaborative design tool coming from Google??? Combining SketchUp and Picasa would be a start...But design users have traditionally displayed more loyalty due to their more specialized needs.
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