Our database of Virtual Appliances keeps growing. We have already covered Horde Groupware, Open-Xchange, Scalix and Zimbra. Today we have released yet another virtual appliance — Zarafa.
Zarafa is pretty much the closest you will ever get to an Exchange replacement. It’s obvious that this is the primary goal of the software, as it even offers the same look and feel of Outlook Web Access (OWA). Moreover, it also fully integrates with Outlook through MAPI.
While I’m not very fond of Outlook or OWA myself, I know that a lot of people in the business world are. Therefore, Zarafa might be a very good option for companies who are looking to simply swap out their existing Exchange system for something with a more reasonable price-tag and that runs on platforms other than Windows. In theory, it would be possible to swap out an existing Exchange system over to Zarafa without the end-users barely noticing (assuming they are using local Outlook installations).
Without further due, here’s our Zarafa Virtual Appliance. As with all our Virtual Appliances, it should be able to run on most recent version of VMware’s products.
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