[John Norton]

Knowing this is a support form. I still wish to see the Ideas or answers for what I suggested in a early post. See below !!. Please, Please send this to your managers or upper management. It is your jobs! Do you think M$ is going to keep you after the merger, Thing again. review the activity from M$ past acquisitions... I have over 15 + years of messaging experience and worked with them all. If some one came to me and asked to built a enterprise messaging platform Zimbra would be the answer from a infrastructure this product is worth so much more then a death by Microsoft. Please tell the or send to the correct managements ( I would send it, but need the names at Yahoo that can understand what we looking for!) There is other money, that can be made if Yahoo had half the sense to see the opportunities. ( That may be asking these great educated business men too much, Like making the best of a business deal$$ for everyone.) See below from keeping a great product and respected invested Zimbra clients from hanging..

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Seeing as Zimbra was just acquired by Yahoo. Was there a back out clause to buy or get the product back or resale it? This is usually added to protect customer base and commitments from issues just like the one Zimbra finds it customers in now!.

You know Microsoft will destroy the Zimbra product. It has the same base architecture model as Exchange and they will not what to support it, but try to get the current customers migrated to Exchange thus eliminating Zimbra R.I.P.

Zimbra / Yahoo management should look to sell the product as a condition of the merger if it happens. I would look to other large companies like IBM as they have been trying to find a alternate enterprise Email solution for their customer base. As many don't like Domino or are looking for something other then exchange. This is what the whole "WorkPlace" product offering was suppose to address but we all know it didn't work out well. They drop the messaging and other WorkPlace projects. ( Just too much time and money and not enough features). They do better acquiring technologies and integrate with their other products. Not to mention they support Open Source projects and love Linux and Java.

IBM could benefit from such a mature product and your client base would have long term support and relationships. Let face it! As you seen in the forum, it not going well and clients are worried. Best of all no one is going to buy them anytime soon. Look how long they had Lotus products or others. Just keeps on ticking...