We’ve done a brief side-by-side comparison of Microsoft Exchange vs. Zimbra features. For those of you who don’t click on links, here’s the comparison:
Cost
Zimbra hosting is more cost efficient than Exchange hosting:
- Zimbra hosting: $3.95 to $9.95/mo per user
- Exchange hosting: $9.95 to $24.95/mo per user
Flexibility
Use Zimbra on any platform (Windows, Apple, Linux), with any mobile device (BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, flip phones).
Better administration
The Zimbra online administrator is light, simple to use, and flexible across multiple domains
Solid security
Full integrated antispam and antivirus capabilities protect your users
More than just the basics
Zimbra goes beyond just email, calendar, contact and task sharing. It adds a document center, instant messaging, and a collaborative wiki to the collaboration suite experience.
Great features!
Zimbra has all the major features of Exchange, and more!
Feature |
Exchange |
Zimbra |
| Calendar/contact, task sharing | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone support | Yes | Yes |
| Blackberry support | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Mobile support | Yes | Yes |
| Outlook 2007 support | Yes | Yes |
| Universal desktop client | No | Yes |
| Apple iSync support | No | Yes |
| Flip phone J2E client | No | Yes |
| Document management | No | Yes |
| Instant messaging | No | Yes |
| Briefcase/wiki | No | Yes |
| SOX compliance out of the box | No | Yes |
| Email grouping | No | Yes |
| Integrated antispam, antivirus | No | Yes |
| Integration with other systems | Marginal | Full SOAP |
| Web Interface | Marginal outside of IE | All major browser supported |
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[...] DataSync offers Zimbra Collaboration Suite hosting, which includes a robust mix of collaboration tools such as email, group calendaring, contacts, task management, advanced search, IM, file storage, zimlets and web document management and authoring. This robust feature set far exceeds the standard mail client, which arguably is better than Microsoft Exchange. [...]