This is the 500th Post on my Blog which is now more than 7 years old.
It pleases me no end that it is about the New Indiatimes Mail which was one of the bigger projects I did with The Times Group.
The new mail platform is based on the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Feature for feature, it beats the pants of the largest mail solutions in the world currently. When we were shortlisting the possible solutions for the new platform, we went through a nightmarish scenario of deciding between the India of today and India of tomorrow. We bet on the fact that Broadband in India will happen, sooner rather than later, and that the Indian Internet user will demand a better experience than the plain vanilla offerings that were available to us at that time.
We could have chosen to go with the India of today, and lived with a light mail solution, but on the whole I feel we made the right choice to go with this rich solution along with a lite version for slower connections.
Indiatimes will be the largest installation for Zimbra so far. So this is a very big deal for Zimbra as well. Though they have a very very large ISP in the US, who will also be using this platform in the near future, with some upgrades to the user interface.
This change for Indiatimes has been in the works since the fall of 2006. Almost a year in the making, it is a bit sad that I won't be there with the company when the marketing launch happens (tomorrow). Though the campaign was pretty much canned when I left a few weeks ago.
Oh well! C'est La Vie!
All the best to the Indiatimes team.
Amazing :)
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