Zarafa
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 17:42 [No Comments]Zarafa is a European open source collaborative software solution developed in Delft, the Netherlands. It provides email storage on the server side and brings its own Ajax-based mail client called WebAccess. All server side components and the WebAccess of Zarafa are published under the AGPL license. Advanced features are available in commercially supported versions (“Standard”, “Professional” and “Enterprise” (different feature levels)[1]). The community edition supports three Outlook users for free[2].
Zarafa is designed to integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook and is meant as an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange Server[3]. The WebAccess has the same “look-and-feel” as the Outlook desktop application. People used to working with Outlook will be able to use the WebAccess without any problems. Besides the personal address book, calendar, notes and tasks, “Public Folders” and shared calendar functionalities (inviting internal and external users, resource management) can be handled by the software as well.
On 18th of September 2008 Zarafa launched the full server side stack under the Affero General Public License[4]. The open source community version can be downloaded at www.zarafa.com/community.
The company that develops Zarafa has used Connectux as a tradename but is now called Zarafa.
