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Oracle Beehive is the next-generation collaboration suite from Oracle. Integrated, complete, open-standards and secure are the keywords. It consists of several tools for collaboration, such as instant messaging, web conferencing, and calendar tools. Users can access all the informations securely via web-based interface (Zimbra for email if I'm not mistaken), or with a commonly-used tools such as MS Outlook, Thunderbird (and a plugin to access the calendar features), pidgin (for instant messaging via XMPP protocol). Oracle Beehive also can coexists with other technology such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. It is hot-pluggable, meaning organizations can just plug it into their existing database and applications, and embed collaboration tools to their business.