Below I've collected a series of news stories on Zimbra and its effort to deliver offline desktop capabilities. Note the podcast link in the TechCrunch story. Offline remains an important function for enterprise decision makers so this advancement will certainly help Zimbra "keep the conversation going" with IT strategists in that regard.
Zimbra Desktop Launched - Growing Trend of Offline Access to Web Apps
As noted in the press release, Zimbra Desktop will allow users to access their email, calendar, contacts, and documents while on the road, or in places without a network connection, through Zimbra's familiar Ajax-based Web interface. When users come back online, all the changes that were made offline - such as composing, replying to, deleting, editing or moving messages, appointments, contacts or documents - will synchronize with the Zimbra server and mobile devices. Zimbra Desktop is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac; plus browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
The Zimbra Desktop Alpha will be available soon from www.zimbra.com/desktop
. It works with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 4.5+, which has an open source edition as well as commercial.
Source: Zimbra Desktop Launched - Growing Trend of Offline Access to Web Apps
Zimbra Desktop To Launch: Full Offline Functionality
Zimbra will announce a new offline client application, Zimbra Desktop
I spoke withZimbra Co-Founder and CEO Satish Dharmaraj about the history of the company and the new Zimbra Desktop product this morning. Listen to the podcast at TalkCrunch
Offline access to web applications (and just as importantly, web-based data) is an area getting a lot of attention right now. Firefox has announced that Firefox 3 will allow sites to work offline by accessing local datastores. New startups like Scrybe are experimenting with this offline syncing. Adobe (and competitors) has just released it’s Apollo platform, which lets developers run HTML, javascript and Flash code outside of the browser and when offline.
Source: Zimbra Desktop To Launch: Full Offline Functionality
Start-up Zimbra takes Web e-mail offline
More Web development technology that bridges the desktop with the Web is starting to come out.
Adobe Systems earlier this month released an alpha version of Apollo, which allows people to write Web applications that can run on desktop machines.
And last week, online-collaboration-software company Joyent detailed Slingshot, software that lets developers convert Web applications written using Ruby on Rails to hybrid online-offline applications.
Source: Start-up Zimbra takes Web e-mail offline | CNET News.com
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