Good to hear about your hosting biz.
You know, a lot of bad precedents have been mentioned above. A surprisingly good precedent occurs to me. Take this as both wish and advice to our Yahoo overlords.
When EMC bought VMWare, a lot of people, myself included, said "What the hell?"
Now, I would say that VMWare is a far stronger company than it was before the EMC acquisition. It remains an independent unit and recently completed a successful independent IPO. The same could happen with Zimbra.
Had VMWare not been acquired by EMC, there's a chance that FUD from Microsoft or Citrix/Xen, or some bogus patent suit, or some financial problem, could have killed an excellent company.
Zimbra, like VMWare, is a *great* brand among people and Google, I mean, Yahoo, searches that matter. Yahoo should retain and foster the brand.
(No, I am not an unmitigated fan of VMWare -- in fact, I'm planning to migrate our small number of VMWare ESX servers to either Xen or Microsoft Virtual PC, because we don't need all the VMWare features or price points. But I do think that it's a great company with a great product, if you need to manage dozens to hundreds of virtual machines and don't feel like buying an IBM mainframe.)  |