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Thunderbird: Desktop messaging system
February 7, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Mozilla is a global community of people creating a better Internet. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla, Mozilla Messaging organizes the development and marketing of email and messaging products encouraging choice, innovation, and opportunity in messaging on the Internet.
Thunderbird, as a messaging system, is uniquely positioned as the tool that users can use to integrate as many of their communications as they want.
By combining an open architecture, a powerful extensibility and customization framework, and a person-centric perspective on communications, Thunderbird is a powerful yet enjoyable tool to help individuals manage their online interactions — whether that’s email, instant messaging, social networking messages, or other types of message.
Thunderbird will evolve to embrace the Web, by continuing to blur the distinction between what’s on the web and what’s on the desktop, while keeping in mind the importance of keeping the individual in charge of their online experience.
Website: http://www.mozillamessaging.com
Zimbra: Messaging and collaboration
February 6, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Zimbra is a client and server platform for next-generation messaging and collaboration. It provides administrators and their end users innovative features that solve the challenges faced by organizations using today’s legacy communications infrastructure. Key advantages include compatibility with Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop environments; better scalability and ease of maintenance; plus flexibility to integrate other applications as web services in their AJAX web client.
Website: http://www.zimbra.com/
Community Website: http://www.zimbra.com/community/
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
The KinDev team.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
The KinDev team.