I think the only salvation here is if a Yahoo + Google alliance goes through and they beat off the MS offer. The Y! board already feels that the $31 share price offer is too low, so won't be recommending the MS deal to it's share holders I'd imagine.
We have all been around long enough to know Microsoft has a habit of buying competitors to eleminate them, or they take it and apply their development philosophy to it which in most cases is just as bad and something you were trying to avoid in the first place.
MS = No more Zimbra and I'd have a hard time believing anything different, right now I am hoping like nothing else that Y! doesn't go with the offer, not just because of Zimbra and the personal headache it'd cause me as a NE user, but because of the broader implications for the net.
MS idea of a ads based internet just gives me nightmares. |