Webmail has captured a sizable educational market nowadays. Schools and Universities incorporates services like e-mail and calendars to facilitate their faculty members and students. But there are number of web services that provides quality service and are successful in gaining public confidence. Microsoft’s Outlook, Yahoo’s Zimbra and Google’s Gmail are quality services that can be compared with each other and can challenge a tough competition to each other. Currently Yahoo’s Zimbra is ruling as it has won a bid of Stanford University.
Yahoo!’s Zimbra is an open source, next generation messaging and collaboration software that has already gained some extra points over other web services due to its outstanding features. Stanford is another big addition in a long list of Zimbra’s victories.
Zimbra has already proved its caliber by incorporating its e-mail system in more then 300 universities such as California Polytechnic, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania . The company has provided more than a million email addresses with a ".edu" ending.
Stanford’s contract signing was supposed to be a hot topic and Google’s chances of winning was more as it has already deployed its vast Gmail services in the number of Australian Schools.
According to Ammy Hill, Stanford’s readiness specialist for IT Services, they selected Zimbra because:
"the technology allows access to e-mail, calendar and contact lists from a single, unified web interface—enabling easy sharing of information among the various services, Zimbra is an open-source, standards-based solution that works equally well on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems."
Zimbra’s victory lies in the fact that it supports multiple OS with additional functionality and synchronization. Its strong mobile and enterprise support makes it all more useful and flexible service.
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