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Are you sick of the continual problems in having to support Exchange, Outlook and Entourage in a mixed platform environment? Well, you owe it to yourself to at least test this. Ok, so it’s still in beta stage and only runs on Red Hat Enterprise or Fedora, but it is very promising. Zimbra is a new startup with some clever ideas about how an e-mail system should behave. The system is entirely server-based, provide email, contact/address book, group calendaring features, has a zero client footprint and matches exchange almost feature for feature. Through the use of a new web development technique called AJAX the system provides a very interactive session without full page reloads. Amongst the many clever features and innovations is the use of tags instead of folders so any message can live in multiple folders, clever hovers that show contact info, calendar info and other data as you hover over names dates and codes. For the administrators it has a completely web based interface, the ability to easily restore individual mailboxes, online archiving and even comes with an Exchange migration tool. It is open source and distributed under a derivative of the Mozilla Public License. What are you waiting for? go and download it already…