Will 11 million paid Zimbra mailboxes add up to $66 million?
Posted by: admin in Business and Politics
Zimbra keeps on growing
I was on Zimbra’s site this day looking for the latest update to its excellent Desktop product, and encountered the news that open-source Zimbra now has 11 million paid mailboxes. This might still be small potatoes compared to IBM’s Domino and Microsoft’s Exchange, but it signals tremendous growth from Zimbra, as a swift Google search confirmed.
Back in October 2006, Techcrunch reported 4 million paid mailboxes for Zimbra. By January 2007, the number had jumped 2 million to 6 million paid mailboxes.
In the space of a year, then, Zimbra has roughly doubled its customer base. Let’s correlate this to sales.
The company expected to hit $20 million in 2007 (and was on track to do just that as of September 2007, when Yahoo! acquired Zimbra), the year that it probably bumped up against 9 million paid mailboxes ($2.22 per mailbox). It did $6 million in 2006, the year that it had 4 million paid mailboxes ($1.50 per mailbox).
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