![]() ![]() If everyone got all of the features they wanted for free, nobody would pay anything and zimbra wouldn't exist. ![]() The fact is that people are being greedy. They're well aware that there are users out there who would love to use the network edition but who can't afford it right now, and I'm sure they've factored that into their decision on the pricing model. Zimbra has to price things how they deem neccesary. Perhaps the pricing model is a bit "off", but that's not for us to say. Sure I would find iSync support incredibly useful, but I can wait for it to be released open source. Zimbra has already made an incredibly wonderful product that I enjoy using even with it's limited features. If you can't do that, find someone who can, or find another product. Would Zimbra be against such a user-created solution being made freely available (though unsupported by zimbra ) ? If you can't wait, then write it yourself - it IS open source, so this should be trivial. If you want all of the new features (such as syncing, hot backup/restore, etc ) then pay for it. There is a pay to use version that has all of the new features, and then there's the free version that those features eventually trickle down to. ![]() I've seen plenty of OSS projects that follow a model exactly like this (wine being one of them.). They've been kind enough to provide the community with an open source version of this suite which, very correctly so, does not have all of the features in the network version. Zimbra is creating a wonderful groupware solution that eventually could (and I hope does) rival exchange. A lot of people here seem to be missing a larger point: ![]()
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