Comments on: Zimbra bought by Microsoft? http://www.port7.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/01/zimbra-bought-by-microsoft/ life and times of a geek home Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:20:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Will http://www.port7.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/01/zimbra-bought-by-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-18767 Will Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:04:32 +0000 http://www.port7.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/01/zimbra-bought-by-microsoft/#comment-18767 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 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

]]> By: David Goodwin http://www.port7.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/01/zimbra-bought-by-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-16848 David Goodwin Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:41:14 +0000 http://www.port7.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/01/zimbra-bought-by-microsoft/#comment-16848 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. 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.

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