24 Sep. Open source software vendor Zarafa appoints Mirjam Scholtes as Communication & PR Manager

As of September 14, 2009 Zarafa has appointed Mirjam Scholtes to the position of Communication & PR Manager. In her new role she will be responsible for the international positioning of Zarafa. Besides that she will act as a press officer and take care of media relations. This appointment is in line with the strategy of the quickly growing company to strengthen the external positioning of Zarafa’s brand.    Mirjam joins Zarafa from Logica, a business and ICT services company. Lately she worked for Logica as a press officer and was responsible for the Public Sector and Industry, Distributions & Transport divisions. Mirjam has more than 10 years’ experience within communications and has worked for the ICT sector for 17 years.

About Zarafa
Zarafa is the fastest growing commercial Linux-based groupware company in Europe that enables Linux servers to share Outlook calendar and e-mail and allows web-based access by means of an AJAX-based web client. Many governments and corporations run with Zarafa.

It is the only groupware platform that includes open source ActiveSync compatibility, which enables organizations to have remote synchronization and pushmail for Windows Mobile, Google Android, Nokia’s Mail for Exchange and iPhones. Zarafa also offers full integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Zarafa’s head office is in Delft, The Netherlands and the company also has offices in Stuttgart, Hannover, Parisand Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Zarafa is the Arabic word for giraffe. Like a giraffe, Zarafa has the overview in the landscape of other applications to collaborate together in an open and friendly way. More information is available at www.zarafa.com.

Press contacts
Zarafa International
Mirjam Scholtes, Communication & PR Manager
Tel: +31 1 52517716
Email: m.scholtes@zarafa.com
 

Read here the official press release.