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Originally Posted by jholder  Please feel free to post your thoughts on Zimbra and Yahoo!! |
Thoughts -
In my initial reaction:
I am the Sr Systems Admin for our company. I implemented Zimbra Network Edition as an alternative to problematic other collaboration suites.
I have relied on Zimbra's support, wiki, and open nature in order to make this one of the best roll-outs for our company. So far, I have received nothing but praise from the people that matter in our company.
A concern: As a corporate customer with an established technology in place, I would hope that this acquisition does not change Zimbra's business model. I have read the press release, but also know that Yahoo is a marketing monster.
I would prefer to keep the zimbra logo and company name as part of our system. When people see the Zimbra logo on our web portion, it is not an issue. People may be concerned that we do not host our own email once it shows Yahoo. We are a very large government contractor and this is very important for security reasons.
Ads. Yahoo runs an add based business model. Our company has paid a very nice price for the Network edition and I will be extremely upset to see any adds in our Network version of Zimbra.
Zimbra and Yahoo also should keep in mind legal issues. Companies have paid for licensing, the migration costs, hardware costs, etc. to migrate to this platform. If the support was to change or get bad for any reason, there could be legal issues. Hopefully this is not the case and we will remain happy zimbra customers.