Zimbra and Jive Software Partner to Develop Real-Time Enhancements to the Complete Collaboration Experience

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Zimbra, a leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging software, and Jive Software, a leading provider of easy-to-use, open-architecture, enterprise collaboration software, today announced that the companies have entered into a technology partnership. With this partnership, Zimbra and Jive will lead the way in advancing next-generation collaboration and innovation.

"Zimbra is dedicated to creating the best end-user and administrator collaboration experience through continual innovation, and is always open to new ideas and technologies that will help advance this goal," said Scott Dietzen, Zimbra CTO. "Our partnership with Jive Software paves the way toward integrating innovative new real-time collaboration technologies into the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, such as community forums, advanced knowledge bases and enterprise instant messaging."

"We're thrilled to be working with Zimbra and look forward to discovering continued ways to join the innovative technologies from each of our companies," said Dave Hersh, Jive Software's CEO. "There are many opportunities to complement each other's products. We're working on some immediate things that are very exciting. Look for the details to be announced soon."

About Zimbra:

Zimbra dramatically improves the messaging and collaboration experience for administrators and users. Zimbra's goal is to achieve this by investing in innovation, open source, and compatibility with existing applications and systems. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite supports Windows, Apple, and Linux platforms and works with Microsoft Outlook as well as other PC and mobile clients. Additionally, Zimbra provides an AJAX browser based client that delivers rich, secure, anytime access for anyone within the enterprise. More information and software downloads are available at http://www.zimbra.com/.

About Jive Software:

Jive Software improves how people work together through easy-to-use, open-architecture, enterprise collaboration software, providing intuitive, valuable, easy to deploy software for engineers and users. Jive Software does this through a flexible system for collaboration that matches an open, enterprise-class architecture with a dedication to ease of use and smarter features. By keeping the architecture open, Jive Software ensures that integration and customization are easy, and that employees, customers and partners can all work together in the same environment. Through this laser-focus on flexibility and practicality, Jive Software is changing the way people collaborate.