Compare HCL Notes and Zimbra Collaboration 
HCL Notes vs Zimbra Collaboration
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Zimbra Collaboration easier to use, administer, and do business with overall. However, reviewers preferred the ease of set up with HCL Notes.
- Reviewers felt that Zimbra Collaboration meets the needs of their business better than HCL Notes.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Zimbra Collaboration is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Zimbra Collaboration over HCL Notes.
Cleaner UI, snappier responsiveness, increased capacity on databases and lookups, invite forwarding, forwarding emails as attachments, responsiveness by HCL to customer requests, roadmap for future versions, Office integration.
Although the UI has improved over the years, the user experience still isn't as good as the alternatives -- Microsoft, Google, Apple.. Typically requires a Lotus Notes admin
Besides of e-mail feature, there are a lot of more useful features like calendars and task list. Also provides connectivity through IMAP/POP, CalDAV and CarDAV to external clients. Possibility to use and develop plugins (Zimlets) and multi language support...
The backup system is not flexible. It is very difficult recover only one specific email. Basically need to do a rollback of many messages to find one specific. The email system is very dependent of database server. If there is need of HA solution, it will...
Cleaner UI, snappier responsiveness, increased capacity on databases and lookups, invite forwarding, forwarding emails as attachments, responsiveness by HCL to customer requests, roadmap for future versions, Office integration.
Besides of e-mail feature, there are a lot of more useful features like calendars and task list. Also provides connectivity through IMAP/POP, CalDAV and CarDAV to external clients. Possibility to use and develop plugins (Zimlets) and multi language support...
Although the UI has improved over the years, the user experience still isn't as good as the alternatives -- Microsoft, Google, Apple.. Typically requires a Lotus Notes admin
The backup system is not flexible. It is very difficult recover only one specific email. Basically need to do a rollback of many messages to find one specific. The email system is very dependent of database server. If there is need of HA solution, it will...
