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Schedule

• Introduction • Goal

• Community effect • Conclusion

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Company introduction

Start Packaged Linux Software Started with groupware Launched op CeBIT International partners

2005

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2002

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2006

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2007

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2008

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- Turnover growth >10% per month

- Office in Delft (NL), Hannover, Stuttgart(DE), Belo Horizonte (Br)

Take over german market leader

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Zarafa Collaboration Platform

• Complete opensource replacement for MS Exchange • AJAX based Webaccess with Outlook “Look & Feel” • Outlook sharing: mail, calendar, contacts, tasks

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Supported clients

• AJAX based WebAccess

• Generic clients, like Thunderbird and Evolution via IMAP and Caldav

• All Activesync compatible devices: iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile

• Blackberry devices via Blackberry Enterprise Server • Outlook 2000-2010 (closed source component)

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More Zarafa features

• Advanced collaboration features: – Rules / Quota

– Freebusy / resource booking – Out of Office / signatures • Other

– Hosted / multi-tenant version – Active Directory and LDAP

integration

– Brick level backup with single

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Public sector:

Education:

Thousands of customers worldwide

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Goals of making Zarafa opensource

• Ecosystem growth

– Feedback – Code

• Balance: Zarafa uses open source and want to give back

• Strong push from government to go for more opensource

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In the digital evolution email is a

commodity

• Everybody emails • Always works

• What is new? What is required to do your job better?

• Added value ICT:

– Work efficiently

– New ways of working

Mail nr 1

communication

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ERP

CRM

Chat?

Email is often abused in internal

communication

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Organisations want hybrid

ecosystems

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Choosing an opensource business

model

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Enterprise Features (some closed) Enterprise Features (some closed)

PHP

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Apache

Exim MySQL Postfix Spam Assassin

PHP

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Apache

Exim MySQL Postfix Spam Assassin Free Free Paid

Paid SupportSupport MaintenanceMaintenance

Business Model value added services and features

Enterprise Features Support Enterprise Features Updates & Upgrades

Paid

Zarafa Collaboration Platform

(including open source 3 rd_{party components)}

Enterprise Features

Open

Source

(free)

Open

Source

(free)

Procmail

_{Zarafa Server}

MySQL ClamAV OpenLDAP Linux mapi4linux Z-Push Zarafa WebAccess PHP Apache Postfix Sendmail QmailExim SpamAssasin

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Timeline

Adoption in Fedora Opensource launch

2008

2009

Opened bugtracker

2011

Release of new Community site

2010

Opensource

launch Major IMAP improvement feedback

Launched new Python

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Examples of community contributions

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Coupling between attachments in Zarafa

and Alfresco DMS

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Adopted and packaged by many Linux

distributions

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Z-push: the opensource ActiveSync

server standard

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• Mobility for ActiveSync devices adopted by

our competitors

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New WebApp for easier building

widgets and integrations

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Examples of upcoming community

integrations

• Chat & presence module • Webodf viewer

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More opensource products

• Zarafa Archiving solution

• Z-Admin webbased administration interface • ....

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Conclusion

Opensource will help your business growing

– Larger brandname

– More feedback on code and releases

– New integrations & plugins made by community – New translations available

This all results have resulted in more customers, better software and higher revenue

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Open, Compatible & Enterprise

Compatible

Open Compatible Enterprise

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Thanks a lot for joining this talk!

Contact me on:

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: moostergo

IRC: zMilo on freenode #zarafa

Want to know more technical stuff about Zarafa and it's architecture? Join my tutorial session at 14.30h

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How to catalyze

• Systems (see last slide)

• Software flexibility needed to be adopted

– Packaging

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Additional customer perspectives on email &

integration (3)

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Zarafa Product Vision

Compatibility

Open Integration

Flexible

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From start to growth

Community site

2008

2007

ZCP Open source

2010

Adopted by major community distributions

2008

Open bugtracker Imap

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Zarafa Product Vision

Compatibility

Open Integration

Flexible

Architecture & Storage

- SSD - Archiving

- virtualisation and cloud - Advanced Security

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Summary

• Traditionally, costs have become the most important reason to

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QUESTIONS?

Contact details • http://www.zarafa.com • demo.zarafa.com • www.zarafa.com/download/evaluation.html • [email protected] • zarafagroupware

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