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We are excited to announce today that Yahoo! is acquiring Zimbra to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed to the community and to our customers and partners while leveraging opportunities to enhance their current experience.
We will continue to make our software available for download and continue to offer Zimbra software and support as usual. This evolution further allows Zimbra to exceed its current (and future) customer expectations by leveraging the world class Yahoo! email experience and expertise. Partnering continues to be a very important pillar of Yahoo!'s strategy and this combination will have a renewed focus on partnerships across the globe including our 350+ VAR and hosting partners. The combination of the two companies will only enhance the level of commitment and support to our hosting partners who will remain a key focus for us moving forward.
Yahoo! is also a major proponent of open technologies and this combination is a further testament to how serious they are about their intentions. You will continue to see active participation in developer APIs and forums. We are committed to continue keeping the source open available for use and we will continue to offer the network version that will contain value added proprietary features on top of the open product.
At the heart of this merger is the conviction that email is a core application and Yahoo! can continue to expand its leadership to new markets using Zimbra. For Zimbra, it was the opportunity to grow our footprint at an accelerated pace and the opportunity to provide innovative and new ways to use Yahoo!'s vast SDKs, trusted brand, vast network of users, great communication applications, core email technology like anti-spam and search as well as its ad network to bring in innovative combined solutions to markets that are still left untapped. At every step of the way, we will ensure that Customers have the freedom of choice in what they deploy.
The Zimbra vision has always been that there is a need for an innovative collaboration application for the markets that large corporations have ignored traditionally. We had a vision where the browser was the center of everything a consumer or an office worker needed to accomplish. We were the first to offer a fully offline version of our AJAX application. Together, Yahoo! and Zimbra will continue to deliver on this vision of bringing the richest most collaborative applications to your work place, to your school and to your homes. This is what we will set to do in the coming years.
The combination of these two companies allows us to further enhance our commitment to our markets, our customers, our partners and our community and extend our respective leadership positions. Thank you for all of your support so far and we’re thrilled at the possibilities ahead as we merge these two world-class teams to deliver the best possible experience for our users.
Posted by Satish at September 17, 2007 01:00 PM
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Posted by: mmorse at September 17, 2007 01:21 PM
Congratulations to the Zimbra team!
01.com, a Zimbra hosting and integrator partner, welcomes the new opportunities created by the partnership between Zimbra and Yahoo.
Congratulations to Yahoo, too, for recognizing the value delivered by the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and the partners that have worked to evangelize and support it.
http://www.01.com
Posted by: Gray Rothkopf at September 17, 2007 01:31 PM
Congratulations to the Zimbra team, its a good time to be into business speed track.
Posted by: sureshmayan at September 17, 2007 01:46 PM
Congrats to both of you ...
This must be an unforgettable moment your staff is enjoying. Sure everyone will be celebrating after work
Posted by: Search Engines at September 17, 2007 02:44 PM
Congrats Satish. It'll be interesting to see how Yahoo manages the integration of Zimbra.
Posted by: Tom Foremski at September 17, 2007 03:06 PM
Satish.
Congratulations! Great to hear the news :-)
Satish Mummadi
Boston, MA
Posted by: Satish Mummadi at September 17, 2007 03:38 PM
Congratulations on your company's acquisition by Yahoo!
Posted by: HP at September 17, 2007 04:05 PM
Congratulation to both companies. It will be exciting to see the expansion.
Posted by: John Ewart at September 17, 2007 04:05 PM
Congrats Zimbra and Yahoo!
Hopefully this works out well :)
Posted by: Shaun at September 17, 2007 04:31 PM
I was beginning to wonder what the hell was happening with Yahoo! lately. We keep on only hearing about Google acqs.
Posted by: templatestaff at September 17, 2007 06:23 PM
I was excited to hear that acquisition. Well done for Yahoo and congratulations Zimbra. Such a good solution has far more ways to go and this cooperation will make it much much faster.
Gokalp Cakici
Turkiye
Posted by: Gokalp Cakici at September 17, 2007 06:34 PM
congratulations !!
-- benoit
Posted by: benoit schillings at September 17, 2007 08:16 PM
Congratulations !!! great to see real talent rewarded.
Posted by: Ron Lissack at September 17, 2007 09:24 PM
Hey Satish and Team,
Congrats!
This is a great success story that validates that Startups can change the rules of the game and give run for the money to incumbents who take users for granted ;-)
Cheers
--Subra
Posted by: Subra K at September 17, 2007 10:02 PM
Congratulations to the Zimbra team. Please don't lose your individuality after becoming part of the Yahoo collective ;)
Cheers,
Andy Wang
Posted by: Andy Wang at September 17, 2007 10:25 PM
Posted by: Varun at September 17, 2007 10:42 PM
I think its a great success for yahoo. and I hope this will work well.
Posted by: Rahul roy at September 17, 2007 10:50 PM
You people gave a facelift and openness that email space required. It will be a big question as to how Yahoo will position this -- probably a SAAS play, which would add only incremental value to SOHO companies which would be interested in this (compared to current hosted mail offerings).
An enterprise play, directly pitting against Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes would be far more interesting - no sizable companies would want to host their emails, from security as well as availability point of view. (If and when we have big companies adopting SAAS for email, that would truly be end of enterprise application space!)
Such an enterprise play would greatly help industry - by reduce costs of managing email, increasing web applications directly integrated with email.
Posted by: Vinod Kulkarni at September 17, 2007 11:25 PM
Congratulations to both Yahoo & Zimbra teams! Zimbra is a great software product & has demonstrated the power of AJAX.
Satish, you no doubt have inspired many entrepreneurs around the world!
Posted by: Kaustubh at September 18, 2007 01:06 AM
Congratulations !
As others, I really hope that ZCS will continue like that.
I'm using the open-source version, it's a very good product.
Posted by: François at September 18, 2007 03:35 AM
Congratz @ Zimbra Team, good news and fresh money for new developments :)
Cheers
-- seekXL
Posted by: Andre at September 18, 2007 04:11 AM
Congrats. Hope this will help you to be more innovative.
Posted by: Arun at September 18, 2007 05:20 AM
Congratulations from Germany,
we are great fan of your software.
Cheers
Joerg
Posted by: Joerg Bienert at September 18, 2007 06:40 AM
I congratulate the Zimbra team for all the work and effort that has brought Zimbra as far as it has.
Having run a successful software company in the past, I understand first-hand all the factors that likely went into the decision.
With all due respect, however, I have to admit I'm very disappointed with the news. I was really attracted to Zimbra for its willingness to buck the trend and make a go at it. I understand the financial attractiveness of the acquisition and what it potentially brings, but unfortunately I do not put a lot of faith in the long-term prospects of the Zimbra name continuing to stand for what it has in the past.
Mark
Posted by: Mark G. at September 18, 2007 06:53 AM
Its great news. keep it up guys!
Posted by: Guruprasad at September 18, 2007 07:13 AM
Congrats Zimbra team!! You deserve to be part of Yahoo!!
Posted by: Sivakumar at September 18, 2007 07:25 AM
Posted by: kenpozeiro at September 18, 2007 07:37 AM
A tiny bit of advice for yahoo...please don't try and fix what is not broken. Zimbra is an excellent product, with excellent community and tech support...
Posted by: Aaron Bliss at September 18, 2007 07:49 AM
congratulations !! Really a beautiful and very good news !
Posted by: Mikael at September 18, 2007 07:51 AM
Good luck to help spreading open source software at a glance!
- thomas
Posted by: www.1-search.de at September 18, 2007 08:22 AM
WAWWWW
Great NEWS>/////////
Cheers
Noushad
Posted by: Noushad at September 18, 2007 09:36 AM
Congrats!! We all are looking towards even mature and powerful open source Zimbra suit of products.
Posted by: SZ Quadri at September 18, 2007 10:02 AM
I hope Zimbra stays Open Source and maybe, just maybe, all facets of the product will be Open Source.
It would be nice to see Yahoo! give away the Network edition to boost it's presence as a vaible Exchange contender.
Stay Open, Stay Free!
Posted by: Chris at September 18, 2007 12:22 PM
Posted by: SaaSWeek at September 18, 2007 01:28 PM
Very good news , It is recoginization for OpenSource Talent
Congrats
Thanks
Joseph John
Posted by: Joseph John at September 18, 2007 09:57 PM
Satish,
Congratualtions! I knew the work I had you and Prashant do for your assistantship duties in distributed simulations would one day payoff (what?)! All of your old Clemson professors are super proud of you! Drop me a note sometime and we can catch up.
Jack
Posted by: Jack Peck at September 19, 2007 05:28 AM
Wow, this is a great deal. Congratulation to Zimbra Team.
Vavai - Indonesia
Posted by: Vavai at September 19, 2007 11:12 PM
Congratulations Satish,
Now Google will know that it isn't the world.
Sai
Posted by: Sai Prasad Kothapalle at September 20, 2007 01:25 AM
Congratulations to all of you. Good luck. I know Boom Boom will be delighted.
Lou.
Posted by: Lou Sandrini at September 20, 2007 02:31 PM
Satish,
Congratulations on your achievement! I got to know about this first from my dad, who is in Philly now. During one of our chat sessions, he waved the NY times at me and asked me to guess who it was on the picture. I did guess it right :)
He then said, " Its not everyday that I get to a see known face on the NY Times." I had to get it across to you!
Wishing you all the best!
Rani
Posted by: Rani Venugopal at September 20, 2007 09:06 PM
Posted by: Tom-Pele at September 22, 2007 08:28 AM
Posted by: Jacob Mathai at September 23, 2007 07:24 PM
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
Gavino
Posted by: Gavino at September 28, 2007 01:43 PM
Congratulation to the whole Zimbra team.
Its a great move and hope we will still the great support and extended functionalities that we all Zimbra fans want to have.
And hope it does not stop here..
Regards,
Prashant
Posted by: Prashant at October 24, 2007 02:34 AM
Posted by: Mary Smaragdis at October 26, 2007 12:08 PM
Congratulations to Zimbra for this big Deal!
Posted by: Zute at October 31, 2007 02:20 PM
Posted by: oyun at November 7, 2007 07:12 AM
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
Posted by: seksuel at November 30, 2007 12:40 AM
Congratulations!
Like others, I sincerely hope that ZCS will continue like that.
I use open source version, it is a very good product.
Posted by: tor at December 11, 2007 04:05 AM
Satish is a heavy meatal and ROCK STAR!!!
Posted by: diet at December 21, 2007 08:21 AM
Posted by: yutube at December 21, 2007 10:01 AM
Great news, congratulations..
Posted by: Makale at December 21, 2007 06:00 PM
Congratulation to the whole Zimbra team.
Its a great move and hope we will still the great support and extended functionalities that we all Zimbra fans want to have.
oyun
küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması
Posted by: küresel ısınmaya hayır seo at December 27, 2007 04:50 AM
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
Posted by: küresel ısınmaya hayır seo at December 27, 2007 04:51 AM
Congrats Zimbra and Yahoo!
Hopefully this works out well :)
Thanks
Posted by: kuresel isinmaya hayir seo at December 27, 2007 06:05 AM
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