You can't help but think that this has negative tones for people thinking about investing in Zimbra. Even using the open source edition it would be a substantial undertaking/investment for our company to move from Exchange. It may be open source but that wouldn't stop MS pulling the plug if it wanted to. I would expect the small print to say that Zimbra couldn't be "transferred" elsewhere. After some considerable testing I was about to recommend Zimbra to the management but now I'm not so sure. I think this needs some sort of Statement from the management of Yahoo, Zimbra or whoever detailing the position.
MS do want to compete against Google so that's a pretty good reason to keep it.
Last edited by Mike Scholes : 02-01-2008 at 07:26 AM.
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