Goodbye Oracle, Hello Zimbra

[Cal Poly Bot]

As Cal Poly's five-year contract with Oracle comes to an end in September, students can expect a new campus e-mail client before the end of 2008.
Cal Poly Information Technology Services announced Tuesday that the new system, based on the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, will be reliable, include collaboration tools, reduce costs and provide more storage.

The current e-mail system, part of the Oracle Collaboration Suite, has received a great deal of criticism in the past few years for being slow, inundated with spam and prone to being unavailable at any moment.

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