[LMStone]

Originally Posted by jholder

Thanks everyone for joining our Call today. We're very pleased with the turnout on such short notice.

A couple followups to make sure that major questions are answered.

1. No Ads in either the Network Edition or Open Source edition.
2. Source code and binaries will still be available.
3. Still Open Source? Yes.
4. If applicable, we'll be shipping Yahoo Zimlets, but you may customize them as you see fit.
5. Yahoo Mail for consumers and Zimbra will be two separate units. Zimbra will not replace yahoo mail or vice versa.
6. Outlook 2007 Connector stuff will not be delayed because of the acquisition. It will be available as soon as possible.
7. Community will stay in tact. Zimbra employees are locked in for 3 years.

If you have other questions or comments, please post them. We'll get to them as soon as we can.

No changes in anything are expected until ZCS 5.5.

Hope this helps clear up things,
john

Hi John,

Here's what I else I thought I heard on the call that may put some folks at ease (or not).

I asked how Yahoo expected to make a return on their $350 million investment. I thought I heard that there would be two revenue streams: the first from NE customers, just like now.

The second revenue stream I thought I heard was that Yahoo will be offering a hosted Zimbra solution itself, where users who don't want ads can pay something to have an ad-free Zimbra experience.

This same Yahoo hosting environment will have restrictions on which Zimlets can be loaded; I understood the current thinking would be that Yahoo would provide a library of Zimlets from which users could choose. The library would not offer custom zimlets nor likely zimlets like Google search due to security and competitive reasons, respectively.

I also thought I heard that partner pricing for NE licenses would be at an attractive enough price point so that companies like ours that offer hosted Zimbra will still be able to do so profitably, even though we will effectively be competing against Yahoo.

John, please feel free to correct or clarify anything above; the connection on the call was not always the best.

With best regards,
Mark