Microsoft-Yahoo Is Dead, Long Live Zimbra | Linux Today

Microsoft-Yahoo Is Dead, Long Live Zimbra

Written By
JP
Joe Panettieri
May 5, 2008

[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy
for this link. ]

“Now that Microsoft has ended its pursuit of Yahoo!, a lot of
folks are analyzing the big picture at both companies. Yada, yada,
yada. But instead of focusing on the forest, The VAR Guy would
prefer to focus on one tiny tree: Zimbra, the open source email
platform that Yahoo owns, can now breathe a little easier.

“Alas, under Microsoft’s potential ownership, Zimbra would
likely have suffocated and died. Plenty of Zimbra fans expressed
their fears about Microsoft to The VAR Guy…”


Complete Story

JP

Joe Panettieri

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