Zarafa Scores High in SOS Open Source Software Evaluation
Open source email rated highly for community adoption, level of support and growth potential

October 26, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Zarafa, the European drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for email, calendaring, collaboration and tasks, has received high grades in SOS Open Source, a methodology created by open source strategist Roberto Galoppini, to evaluate and select open source software.

SOS Open Source provides organizations with a clear, automated methodology for determining the level of risk of using specific open source packages, based on factors such as community and ease of code contributions. The analysis method rates each open source candidate based on strength (stable, mature and backed by a viable community), level of support (by a community or vendors) and potential for evolution (e.g. code quality). As verification and validation tests always require a significant amount of time and resources to be run, this method limits the number of appropriate candidates displayed in graphs for easy comparison.

"We are very pleased that Zarafa rated highly according to the Galoppini SOS open source evaluation," said Brian Joseph, CEO at Zarafa. "This is an indication of the value provided by our quickly growing global email and collaboration community."

Compared to the competition, it is remarkable that Zarafa is included in many major community distributions. Robert Scheck, Fedora Ambassador says: "The adoption of the Zarafa packages in Fedora for Mageia, one of the newest Linux distributions at the moment, is a sign for me that their growing user base is going to use Zarafa, too. In addition, some of the Zarafa users at Fedora are even contributing to community tools and utilities for Zarafa to enhance them with their features."

"Most open source assessment methods take too long and lack objective metrics, and are not that useful for determining the risk of building solutions based on specific open source software," said Roberto Galoppini, Open Source Strategist. "The SOS methodology uses automation to provide a pragmatic, quick and easy way to assess open source software with confidence."

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