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.
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).