offline client: Zimbra Desktop

Zimbra extends its open source web-based office-, mail- & collaboraiton suite (with a reported number of 6mio paying customers) into the offline world. Zimbra Desktop is based on Apache Derby, a locally running Java-database, and requires a ~30mbyte download available for mac, windows & linux.

(Screenshot courtesey of TechCrunch)

Zimbra going offline

I haven’t been using online collaboration- & email-suite Zimbra until now, but todays announcement sure sounds interesting: Zimbra is about to receive a local cache-feature, which will allow users to access email even when being offline – auto-syncing included. however, the official blog-entry doesn’t go into detail on how this will be implemented. recently introduced [...]