Zimbra is offering an office productivity suite. The Yahoo-owned provider of open-source messaging and collaboration tools announced Thursday a free beta of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, which offers a centralized location for managing e-mail even when a user is not connected to the World Wide Web, plus a tool for creating documents and spreadsheets.

Satish Dharmaraj, cofounder of Zimbra and a vice president of Yahoo, said the new application takes the “world-class collaboration suite and makes it available for everyone for

use anywhere, anytime, with any e-mail detail.”

Docs, Spreadsheets, Tasks

Yahoo said Zimbra Desktop is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users with access to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL, or any IMAP/POP-enabled server. The desktop is a downloadable application that doesn’t run in a browser window and offers offline access to e-mail.

Using the same Zimbra interface as its previous messaging and collaboration incarnation, the desktop […]

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