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.
On the list of offenses that can be committed via email, many of us are guilty of petty crimes. Whether sending a hasty email to the “wrong Bob”, accidentally replying to the entire department when you meant to send a heads-up to a co-worker, attaching the wrong document to a message, or perhaps mistakenly forwarding a message that contains past messages you’d rather the recipient hadn’t seen, most of the time an email gaffe ends up a non-issue or blows over pretty quietly. After all, to err is human.
Horde Groupware is probably not the first collaboration software that comes to mind when thinking about deploying a new system. Perhaps it should. Contrary to most of the popular collaboration software on the market such as Open-Xchange, Scalix and Zimbra, the guys behind Horde understands how to write efficient code and use appropriate tools (no Java, just plain PHP). 
It’s been a busy week. As a result, I haven’t been able to cover all the news that I would have liked to. Because of this, I thought it would be a good idea to write a combined post that outlines the news from this week that I failed to cover. 
I’m surprised how long time it took for Google to get their acts together and 
Just a few minutes ago, Hushmail 
This is pretty amazing. It must take some seriously incompetent IT people to lose 22 million emails (or perhaps an organized cover-up). But now we at least know that it’s possible.
Today the Gmail blog 
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Today is a big day for both Google and the City of Los Angeles, as the city officially pulled the plug on their old email with 34,000 users.