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I'm a zimbra user and a huge fan, but I'm not sure I understand the need for a desktop suite. Thunderbird works well for an email client with Zimbra and supports IDLE, Sunbird works nicely as a calendar (or use Lightening with thunderbird)... On OS X you can use sync services to keep your address book and ical in sync with Zimbra. On windows there is a plugin for Outlook... Nevertheless, I'm anxious to see what they come up with.

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I wonder where they will store all the data offline. Modern browsers don't have that many options for storing users' data on the client side. Cookies are way too small to store emails.

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Hmm, two similar zimbra posts. <a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Zimbra_Desktop_Launched_Growing_Trend_of_Offline_Access_to_Web_Apps&quot;&gt;http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Zimbra_Desktop_Launched_Growing_Trend_of_Offline_Access_to_Web_Apps&lt;/a&gt;

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And?

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Also: is a web application stored local, that sucks more, and when you see the code is full width Tables, TABLES!!!!, Suck a lot.

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See: <a class="user" href="http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?p=41410&quot;&gt;http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?p=41410&lt;/a&gt;

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RTFA

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Yes we used Derby/Jetty/Lucene as the backing store. This let's us reuse 100% of the client code for the AJAX interface. More on our arch will appear on the blog: <a class="user" href="http://www.zimbra.com/blog/&quot;&gt;http://www.zimbra.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;

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<a class="user" href="http://duggmirror.com/hardware/Zimbra_To_Lauch_Desktop/&quot;&gt;http://duggmirror.com/hardware/Zimbra_To_Lauch_Desktop/&lt;/a&gt;

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