Zimbra bought by Microsoft?

February 1st, 2008Geek

I see Microsoft are making a bid for Yahoo, they are obviously looking to respond to the growing power that is Google, and so Yahoo seems like a good buy.

What is just as interesting and not good news, is that Yahoo recently bought Zimbra, the most promising of the Exchange alternatives out there. So by acquiring Yahoo, Microsoft will also get Zimbra and promptly bury it, in favour of the 500-Pound Gorilla that is Exchange.

My request to the board of Yahoo, don’t do it, but if you do, ensure that Zimbra stay’s open!

2 Responses to “Zimbra bought by Microsoft?”

  1. David Goodwin Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Well, one hopes it wasn’t the only reason that made MS think of buying Yahoo.

    From reading around, it seems the MS/Yahoo deal has been floating around for some time - presumably now Yahoo have had a bad set of results, it’s more tempting to their shareholders etc.

    It would be nice if the deal was blocked due to it resulting in unfair competition (there would only be two real search engines afterwards); but it’s unlikely.

    Another slightly interesting aspect is that Yahoo rely heavily on PHP - and employ Rasmus Lerdorf … will Yahoo “switch” to .Net? (much like Hotmail was migrated from FreeBSD many years ago)

    David.

  2. Will Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Here is something we all can do. This website is trying to get the word out.
    http://www.freezimbranow.org/
    There is also an online petition at : http://www.PetitionOnline.com/zimbra01/petition.html
    Please go here to support zimbra and protect it from Microsoft

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