Francesco Hemmeler Managing Director and Co-Founder of Sorgente.net SA, notes, "We are delighted to be formalizing the relationship with Zimbra into a Service Provider Agreement . We believe there are significant synergies between the solutions provided by our two companies and that by working together we will be able to deliver leading groupware capabilities into the SaaS market."

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 www.zimbra.com.

About Sorgente.net

Located in Switzerland, Sorgente.net is a leading provider of business applications based on a open source software-as-a-service business model. Sorgente.net provides also IT Infrastructure services (Managed Virtual Server and Managed Disaster Recovery). Sorgente.net serves organizations at international level, through technology and services made possible by the open source model. Applications include Groupware, ECM, SFA, ERP&CRM, provided on-demand and sold on a per-use basis.