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Zarafa (1825 – 12 January 1845) was a female Nubian giraffe who lived in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years. A gift from Muhammad Ali of Egypt to King Charles X of France, she was one of three giraffes Muhammad Ali sent to European rulers in 1827. These were the first giraffes to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, since the Medici giraffe was sent to Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in 1486.
Zarafa, an open-source groupware application, originated in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The company that develops Zarafa, previously known as Connectux, is also called Zarafa. The Zarafa groupware provides email storage on the server side and offers its own Ajax-based mail client called WebAccess and a HTML5 based, WebApp. Advanced features are available in commercially supported versions ("Small Business", "Professional" and "Enterprise" (different feature levels)).
Zarafa was originally designed to integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook and was intended as an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange Server. Connectivity with Microsoft Outlook is provided via a proprietary client-side plugin. Outlook support is to be discontinued after Q1/2016. The WebApp (and WebAccess) has the same "look-and-feel" as the Outlook desktop application. The software handles a personal address-book, calendar, notes and tasks, "Public Folders", a shared-calendar (inviting internal and external users, resource management), exchange of files and video-chat. The open-source edition does not support any MAPI-based Outlook users, while the community edition supports three Outlook users.
All server-side components and the WebApp/WebAccess of Zarafa are published under the Affero General Public License (AGPL), based on the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2). Introducing and maintaining a dual-licensing strategy, on 18 September 2008 Zarafa released the full core software, that is the server side software stack, under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPLv3).
Zarafa is a 2012 French-Belgian animated film directed by Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie. It was released on 8 February 2012 in France.
Zarafa may refer to:
- Zarafa (film), an animated film
- Zarafa (giraffe), a present to Charles X of France from Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Zarafa (software), a groupware software application