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February 23, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Zimbra an answer to Catholic prayers

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I couldn't resist the headline, because Tina Gasperson's Linux.com article on Zimbra was classic: "Zimbra and OSS answer college's prayers for cost-effective enterprise apps."

St. Vincent's is a Catholic liberal arts college in Latrobe, Penn. With budget constraints typical of many small private educational institutions, the school is taking deliberate steps to use more open source software. Recently it ditched Microsoft Exchange in favor of Zimbra.

"We like the concept of open source as opposed to paying a high license fee and then high maintenance fees," CIO Tom Morrison says. "We like the idea of paying for support, not the product. I think it encourages the provider to continue to maintain a high level of value, because we're not locked into a proprietary license."

The college sought to find a messaging and collaboration application with less restrictive license terms than Microsoft's, but comparable functionality.

Great work to the Zimbra team. Now you just need to work on my church. I want my tithing to pay for value, not licenses.

Posted by Matt Asay on February 23, 2007 08:30 AM

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