1. Zarafa Collaboration
Platform
Milo Oostergo
m.oostergo@zarafa.com
www.zarafa.com

2. History of Zarafa BV
• The company behind the Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP)
• Started in 2004 with the project
• Committed to open source since 2008
• Grew its workforce from 20 employees in 2006 to 50 in 2010
• Offices in The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil and India
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3. What is ZCP?
• An open source Microsoft Exchange replacement
• Full integration with standard Linux server components
like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and OpenLDAP
• Implements MAPI, therefore fully compatible with MS Outlook
• Only solution with open source ActiveSync implementation
• Multi-tenancy available in all editions
• Excellent integration with mobile clients
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4. ZCP Open Source
• AGPLv3 (fully “free” software) since 2008...
• More interest: especially public sector
• Less small customers, more large customers
• Fast growing international partner program
• Community involvement (patches, plugins, testing,
packaging)
• Picked up by many distributions (next slide)
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5. Distros shipping ZCP
• Ubuntu, in the Canonical partner repository
• Fedora 11/12/13
• EPEL repository for Red Hat and CentOS
• Mandriva
• OpenBSD
On our website we serve packages for many distributions
namely for RHEL4/5, SLES10, OpenSUSE, Debian4/5 and Ubuntu LTS releases
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6. Supported clients
• Zarafa WebAccess (a modern AJAX web GUI)
• Open source clients (via IMAP and Caldav)
like Thunderbird and Evolution
• All ActiveSync compatible devices via opensource Z-Push
iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile
• Outlook 2000-2007
requires closed source Zarafa Windows Client
• Blackberry
via Blackberry Enterprise Server
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7. Easy to integrate...
• With SugarCRM
• With Alfresco
• With O3Spaces
With our next generation WebAccess we allow deeper
integration with other products –while making it easier for
3rd parties to make integrations– thanks to a public API.
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8. ZCP
Architecture
Diagram
(overview)
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9. ZCP Architecture
Diagram
(bottom)
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10. ZCP Architecture
Diagram
(top)
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11. ZCP Architecture
• Storage architecture is fully based on MAPI
• Objects in a MySQL database, attachments on the file system
file system storage: optional, compressed, single instance
• All clients connect over SOAP to the Zarafa Storage Server
• Flexible and modular architecture for scaling and HA
• ZCP provides different user backend systems
database, /etc/passwd, LDAP (OpenLDAP, RHDS, eDirectory or Active Directory)
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12. LDAP user
management
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13. MTA integration
email
Every incoming email is
Spam delivered to the dagent
filtering Postfix / Exim LMTP service.
LMTP
The dagent converts the
Dagent
RFC822 email to MAPI
Mapi4Linux objects.
Zarafa Server
The MAPI objects are stored
in the MySQL database
MySQL
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14. Scaling up
LDAP
LDAP
Zarafa1 Zarafa2 Zarafa3
Zarafa1 Zarafa2 Zarafa3
MySQL1 MySQL2 MySQL3
MySQL1 MySQL2 MySQL3 dn: uid=milo,ou=People,dc=zarafa,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: zarafa-user
objectClass: posixAccount
cn: Milo Oostergo
uid: moostergo
ZarafaUserServer: Zarafa1
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15. Future
developments
• WA7 our next generation WebAccess
• Zarafa Archiving
• Full utf8 support in backend
• Deeper integrations with other apps, like VOIP, Twitter and ERP
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16. Questions?
Milo Oostergo
m.oostergo@zarafa.com
Have a look at our website:
www.zarafa.com
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