Zimbra’s User Count Exceeds Gmail

      by Wyatt Walter

Just a couple of months ago, Zimbra reported that it had exceeded 20 million paid mailboxes and just now has announced it reached 40 million, surpassing the number of Gmail users. Zimbra, of course, is not quite in the same game as Gmail since Zimbra only offers its hosted solution for educational users, but one can get Zimbra hosted through a reseller. The software can also be downloaded and run on a local mail server at a company’s location.

Zimbra’s competition lies more in the paid Gmail mailboxes or in Microsoft Exchange, but surpassing the number of Gmail users is a great feat. A vast majority of the users have been educational as well as included in a deal with Comcast to offer their customers a hosted Zimbra account with each Internet subscription. What’s not included in the count, however, are a number of Zimbra open source users. Zimbra offers its core software for free as well as some additional features in the pay-for version which was the version counted. There really is not a way to count the number of non-paid mailboxes which could sum up to be quite a few mailboxes as well, but there’s really no telling.

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