Zimbra

Today Zimbra is a division of Yahoo! operating independently to deliver world-class experiences to customers in education, businesses and enterprises.

The Zimbra team uses an open source software development methodology. That means we use many proven and highly web-scalable open source components as building blocks in Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop. There are several major benefits to this approach:

• Time spent innovating, not re-inventing the wheel
• Faster product maturation and more features
• Our code is freeley available to the community to use, review and modify

Key to Zimbra's success is the vast community of over 20,000 developers and IT professional who help make the product better by providing feedback, support and code contributions.

Zimbra, the company, was started in 2004 by a small group of like-minded people who believed traditional email was "broken" and good collaboration tools were not accessible to most organisations cost-effectively. Since then Zimbra has grown into a movement with millions of users worldwide.