{"id":622,"date":"2007-09-18T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T05:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/18\/zimbra-acquired-by-yahoo-congratulations-and-hope-they-dont-kill-it"},"modified":"2008-01-11T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T08:38:08","slug":"zimbra-acquired-by-yahoo-congratulations-and-hope-they-dont-kill-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/18\/zimbra-acquired-by-yahoo-congratulations-and-hope-they-dont-kill-it","title":{"rendered":"Zimbra acquired by Yahoo! &#8211; congratulations, and hope they don&#8217;t kill it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its exciting to see Zimbra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/yahoo_acquires_zimbra.html\">being<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/yodel.yahoo.com\/2007\/09\/17\/zimbra-is-so-damn-cool\/\">purchased<\/a> for USD$350 million, by Yahoo!. Exciting because its a great product, exciting because I use it daily, and I guess Satish &amp; team (of over 100 employees) deserve a big pat on the back. The other exciting thing to note is that its got MySQL in its core, and if they&#8217;re pushing it out farther and wider now thanks to the Yahoo! purchase, all the better.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few things that are unclear, though, even from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\/about\/yahoo_acquires_zimbra_qa.html\">FAQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They mention commitment to Zimbra 5, but I&#8217;m still waiting for 4.5.7 :P (My Series 60 phone still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/zimbra-and-nokia-symbian-series-60-imaps-issue\">hates<\/a> IMAP via Zimbra).<\/li>\n<li>Will we see, say the AdSense Zimlet (only available in network, at the moment), disappear?<\/li>\n<li>Will they hurt the community by attempting to over-commercialise Zimbra? Compiling Zimbra from source control isn&#8217;t the <em>easiest<\/em> process, because of the dependency list, so I do hope they don&#8217;t run away from their amazing &#8220;easy&#8221; install process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess its good to know that they&#8217;re in the Communications &amp; Community team. Yahoo! has a tendency to buy things and <em>kill<\/em> it in the past as well. Anyone remember Geocities? They were a better MySpace, any day. Lets hope Brad Garlinghouse ensures Zimbra stays committed to delivering their product, and remain relevant (today, I don&#8217;t see any better software for ease-of-use and integration available out there in the open source world). Again, congratulations to Yahoo! on acquiring a great company, and here&#8217;s me tipping my hat for their betterment in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; a loyal Zimbra fan.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/zimbra%20yahoo%21%20acquisition\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">zimbra yahoo! acquisition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its exciting to see Zimbra being purchased for USD$350 million, by Yahoo!. Exciting because its a great product, exciting because I use it daily, and I guess Satish &amp; team (of over 100 employees) deserve a big pat on the back. 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