[LMStone]

Congrats to the Zimbra VCs; in this market to find a deal that literally cashes them out at a great multiple speaks volumes as to Zimbra's quality and Yahoo's desire to own it.

I confess I'm surprised the NE customers who resell Zimbra as a SaaS solution (like us) didn't get a "Don't worry, you won't be reselling Yahoo Mail next year..." notice today.

I also REALLY don't like getting calls from our customers to whom we resell Zimbra as a hosted service asking me about the deal -- before I had heard of it. I thought there might be something on the support portal, but that's down right now (hmmm, any connection there?).

We had been having an engineer work on prototyping our migration from SLES9/Zimbra4.5.6 > SLES10/Zimbra5. I've stopped that work until we get some more clarity from Zimbra as to both the development roadmap and the revenue opportunities under the new regime.

We LOVE Zimbra; it's great and Zimbra 5 has got us very excited. But, we have a business to run, and that has to be foremost on our minds.

I'd like to believe the glass is half full (or higher), but it would be nice if Zimbra told us so.

Hope this comes across as constructive (albeit frank) criticism as intended, and not anything else.

All the best,
Mark