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Originally Posted by bigmudcake  Even in worse case, if MS/Yahoo deal goes through then it would still be at least 2 years before development would cease (thats even if it would cease), allowing for 1 year for the battle to takeover, 6 months for regulatory approval, 6 months for MS to get plans into action.
Now, given that Zimbra is already years ahead of its competion  , you are looking to at least 4 years of useability. And by that stage you would do a review anyway.
So all those considering using Zimbra now, the MS announcement should not hinder their plans. You should consider Zimbra to be the best collaboration product for at least the next 4 years. |
Worse case scenario?
This is hardly the worse case. While nothing has happened yet, the MS/Yahoo deal could certainly develop very quickly from here. Worse case is deal is done in 6 months and Microsoft kills all Zimbra development immediately. Even if you have a solid working system at that point, security holes will surface and there will be no one patching them. At that point, all Zimbra admins will be sitting ducks scrambling for a new solution. I for one, would not would not want to be in that situation and certainly disagree that holding off is wrong at this point.