I don’t really get the concept of this Zimbra Desktop Client. Pushing the server backend infrastructure to replicate with some heavy client-side backend makes this client a bit heavy to say the least.
Setup is cumbersome, as it is not integrated in ones distro’s package management. It’s a heavy load on the system. And one gets to keep the disadvanteages of a web client.
What companies really need, are plugins to their favourite mail client. Web is not the solution for everything. At least not yet. Desktop applications still are very important. You already do a very good job with the outlook connector. Many customers choose to use outlook because the web interface is too slow. Please put some focus on other clients, Evolution to start with.
Of course many people have enough with the web interface. But many others need something that integrates better with the desktop, with their email client, and with everything that already integrates with that email client.
Some people use email a lot, and need it to be fast and responsive. Web doesn’t cut it for them.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. Making a decent email client is already difficult enough.
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So I’ll repeat the main idea of my comment with minimal markup here:
I think the main selling point is offline capabilities, and I’ve considered starting using Zimbra Desktop to that purpose myself a few weeks ago (before version 2 was out).
But I do have doubts, as I am also not keen on the a-Web-interface-for-everything idea.
Yes, offline synchronisation is a killer feature. One at which Exchange/Outlook2003+ does a very good job. But there’s no reason to do it the web way. Offline web apps are a ugly hack to me (without talking about the actual technicial implementation)