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Zarafa from closed to open
Milo Oostergo (m.oostergo@zarafa.com)
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Schedule
• Introduction
• Goal
• Community effect
• Conclusion
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Company introduction
StartPackaged Linux Software
Started with groupware
Launched op CeBITInternational partners
2005 (6)2002 (3) 2006 (10) 2007 (20) 2008 (40)
Office BrazilieOpen Source
(x) = Number of employees
Companyfacts
- No external investment- 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
• Integration with Linux (mail) Server
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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
email restore
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Public sector:
Education:
Thousands of customers worldwide
Healthcare:
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Z-Push the first step to opensource
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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 solutions
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In the digital evolution email is a commodity
• Everybody emails
• Always works
• What is new? What is requiredto do your job better?
• Added value ICT:– Work efficiently
– New ways of working
Mail nr 1 communication
‘95 2005
filesharing
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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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EnterpriseFeatures
(some closed)
EnterpriseFeatures
(some closed)
PHP .Apache
Exim
MySQL
Postfix
Spam Assassin
PHP .Apache
Exim
MySQL
Postfix
Spam Assassin
FreeFree
PaidPaid SupportSupport MaintenanceMaintenance
Business Model value added services and features EnterpriseFeatures
SupportEnterpriseFeatures
Updates &UpgradesPaidPaid
Zarafa Collaboration Platform(including open source 3 rd party components)
EnterpriseFeatures
OpenSource
(free)
OpenSource
(free)
Procmail Zarafa Server
MySQL
ClamAV
OpenLDAP
Linux
mapi4linux
Z-PushZarafa WebAccess
PHPApache
Postfix
Sendmail
QmailExim
SpamAssasin
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Selecting an opensource license
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Timeline
Adoption in Fedora
Opensourcelaunch
2008 2009
Opened bugtracker
2011
Release of new Community site
2010
Opensourcelaunch
Major IMAP improvement feedback
Launched new Python integration API
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Opensource release in 2008
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Adoption in major Linux distributions
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Opened bugtracker
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What did it bring us?
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Examples of community contributions
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Coupling between attachments in Zarafa and Alfresco DMS
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Archiving of emails to opensource CRM
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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
• Accenture team developed setup for 100.000+ users
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New packaging layout
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What's next
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Launch of community hub
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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
• Email templating module
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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
CompatibleOpen EnterpriseCompatibleOpen EnterpriseCompatibleOpen Enterprise
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Thanks a lot for joining this talk!
Contact me on:
Email: milo@zarafa.comTwitter: 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
– Zarafa Webapp plugin system
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> 100 active developers create Zarafa plugins
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Additional customer perspectives on email & integration (3)
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Coupling between attachments in Zarafa and Alfresco DMS
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CRM coupling
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Zarafa Product Vision
CompatibilityOpen Integration
Flexible Architecture & Storage
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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
CompatibilityOpen Integration
Flexible Architecture & Storage
- SSD - Archiving- virtualisation and cloud- Advanced Security
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Summary
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Summary
• Traditionally, costs have become the most important reason to migrate to open source
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QUESTIONS?
Contact details
• http://www.zarafa.com • demo.zarafa.com• www.zarafa.com/download/evaluation.html• info@zarafa.com•
zarafagroupware
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Who thinks cost advantage is key benefit of open source ?
-A- YES
-B- NO