Why pay for Zimbra.... get open source edition and have it up... and customize.. zimbra also is not that resource hungry... depends on your deployment and features you want.... which you can define as class of service. hence having optimized.

below are server requirement if you need zimbra with full email and collaboration features.

Production environments
Minimum - 2 GB RAM
Recommend minimum - 4 GB RAM
10 GB free disk space for software and logs (SATA or SCSI for performance, and RAID/Mirroring for redundancy)
*Temp files space- The zimbra-store requires 5GB for /opt/zimbra, plus additional space for mail storage. The other nodes require 100MB.
General Requirements
Firewall Configuration should be set to “No firewall”, and the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) should be disabled