[Yann2]

Kirme3 raised an interesting question. Let's imagine that in a near future (1-2 years) people would like to see Instant Messenging bundled with Zimbra, like Zimbra also acting as an Instant Messenging server.
In the normal opensource thinking, there would have been no hesitation, and the protocol chosen would have been Jabber. But I can barely imagine yahoo using jabber for one of their product, as they already have... a wonderful proprietary IM protocol.

I think that in some point, the interests of Yahoo are not the same than those of Zimbra's customer. If we end up using Yahoo's search, yahoo's instant messenging (IM to be taken as an example here), that would be a bye bye for my company too.

As in the previous posts, I am also very concerned about this acquisition. I really hope Zimbra's spirit will still stay the same.