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Comcast + Zimbra = Future of Unified Messaging

Word is out that Zimbra and Comcast have teamed up; we just wanted to confirm it’s true! We’re excited to be working with Comcast - the largest domestic broadband cable provider. We love and share their integrated communications vision. Taking Comcast Triple Play to the web is the right strategy and will give consumers an easy way to manage their communications needs from one portal.

It’s still early, so we can’t provide a lot of detail yet. What we can say: this will be the first elegant, unified communications app for consumers to hit the web (check out the screenshots below). It’s simple to use, built on our AJAX platform, and consolidates everything - email, IM, voice mail, smart address book, and even RSS feeds.

For Zimbra, this is important on many levels. Many consumers have seen the Zimbra demo and asked us how they could get their own personal Zimbra mailbox. This gives consumers access to the Zimbra innovations and we are really excited about that. Secondly, we are really proud that we earned our stripes by proving server scale.

So what does this mean for the future? Zimbra users should be excited because this offering continues to build and grow our vision. There’s broad applicability of integrated services to all our customers in the enterprise, education, and service provider segments. Stay tuned!

SmartZone Home by Zimbra	SmartZone Email by Zimbra
SmartZone Address Book by Zimbra	SmartZone Voice Mail by Zimbra

Posted by Satish at May 6, 2007 09:00 PM

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Comments

As a early user & integrator of zimbra, we are very proud to say we knew you could do it! Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Reuven Cohen, Enomaly inc at May 7, 2007 06:10 AM

Congratulations, Zimbra. This is a big win for you and for your platform. I look forward to all the cool and unexpected zimlets that should come out of a user-base so large as this. As a client, I also welcome the financial stability this should bring to your firm.

dwj

Posted by: Dave Jenkins at May 7, 2007 09:28 AM

I am happy for you! I hope that this step will help you to improve your mailing system. And of course, I am sure that by having this huge company as your partner won't make you forget about the community that is restricted to the open source version of Zimbra.

Regards

Posted by: Daniel Varga-Hali at May 7, 2007 09:43 AM

@Daniel-
We will never forget our open source roots.

As a matter of fact, we're in the process of making a larger Open Source push.

-john
jholder@zimbra.com

Posted by: John Holder at May 7, 2007 01:07 PM

Nice .. will that include splitting the frontend from the backend allowing other backend solutions? :)

Posted by: wastebasket at May 8, 2007 05:26 PM

We have been toiling on a Zimlet to add voicemail to Zimbra, would rather utilize capabilities built into Zimbra. Any ideas as to when some of the functionality depicted will be available to current partners/users?

Posted by: Pat Kelly at May 19, 2007 01:34 PM

With a little more tweaking you could BE the personal server the public is about to need.

Posted by: nipsy at May 25, 2007 11:02 AM

Comcast making a move at an early stage to get into the unified communications / messaging marketplace early...... smart move. Kudos!

Posted by: unified communications at September 20, 2007 12:02 PM