 350m not that much
zimbra had in March 6 Million paid mailboxes (plus the 12 million Comcast option)... hm...
If i do a very very rough calculation I take 6 million x 15 USD (25 USD plus some discounts for the big ones in the mix)....
So it feels like Yahoo has just paid 2-3 years of revenue.
(but hey, I am just a silly technican. So please tell us your thoughts - "Would you have signed the deal if you were Zimbra?")
On my second day realising the 'deal'... (this word tastes like a dirty coin you know...) ;-)
my very subjective feeling is, that Yahoo got a cheap price, if they want to stop a - right now nearly exploding - competitor.
If they play well, then I will be happy to receive my christmas gift this year: Simplyfied licensing (per single NE user) and mixed mode for lowering hosting costs (OSS and NE on the same Hardware, just License control separates the features per user)...
So I will write my christmas wish list veryearly this year...
(But in the meantime our time and money investments into researching Zimlets go on hold, and go into research for the future of our small ISP route of the engine for the 'killer application number one'-email 1993-2006 qmail 2006-2007 Zimbra 2008- ???)  |