I’ve looked at Zimbra before, primarily when it first came out and generated a lot of buzz. They’ve really come a long way from their initial opening though as was aparant in their keynote speech today. Probably some of the coolest features I’ve seen out of any of the frameworks or applications shown. They showed off the extensive mashups and add-ons to their email and calendar software, really nice things like dragging an email onto the calendar bookmark auto generates a meeting request containing the members who were listed in the email. I really like all of their functionality that parses the regular email text and pulls in contact, calendar, map and such information directly into a hover effect on the text. Though by far the coolest thing they spoke of (they didn’t have a fully working demo yet) during the presentation was integration with a web based travel agency. He explained about dragging a specific meeting invitation over on top of the travel bookmark which would then complete as many details about travel needs as it could based off information in the calendar item, locations before and after the meeting, times flights could be scheduled taking into account any other meetings on those days, etc. Then it would display a page with some further options or allow you to manually change things and automatically book tickets, rooms, rental cars, etc. Really could be a nice feature for those that travel a lot.
On a side note, I was pretty amazed at the size of Zimbra’s application, they stated during the presentation that it contains nearly 130,000 lines of javascript…. crazy people…
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