Open source in E-mail

Have you ever wonder why almost every company uses Microsoft’s, IBM’s or Novell’s software to handle e-mails ? Of course they are the most popular but are there any alternative ? Well, to find out you should definitely take a brief look into the article “Open Source in E-Mail, 2008” posted at gartner. Thanks to the article you will know what are the problems of using open source e-mails platforms on the commercial market. Is Zimbra ready to fight the market giants ? According to the article not yet but thanks to the Yahoo help it has much more opportunity to evolve. The article points out one crucial thing that holds down the open source applications : no commercial support – is it really so or just Microsoft want to be like that. Find out more at : Open Source in E-mails