Raphaël Luta wrote: > Seeing Zimbra current OSS efforts with this toolkit > (even with an ASF member in their team), I have a hard > time believing this proposal is anything but a branding > exercise to help this toolkit stand out in the crowd of > Ajax toolkits.
The Zimbra product owes much of its success to open- source products, especially from Apache. The Kabuki submission for incubation is an attempt to give back to the community that's given us so much coupled with the fact that we believe browser-based client coding with Ajax is a natural fit with the web-centric theme of Apache projects. Our core business is collaboration and competing against Exchange server; we aren't a tools or toolkit company. As such, we are not associating the Zimbra brand with the toolkit and aren't planning on making money from this effort. I hope that goes a little way towards easing some people's concerns regarding the submission. One last note... the Zimbra marketing guy is well aware that PR for incubated projects will not be allowed and he's completely cool with that. Zimbra wants to do "the right thing" and are willing to commit resources to try to make that happen. However, if the Apache community is still uneasy about the submission and denies its entry to incubation, so be it. But I would love to see Apache take a role in crafting the future of AJAX programming (with the added personal benefit of being paid to work on Apache technology again :). -- Andy Clark * Zimbra * [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
