As a potential customer, who's been bantering with a sales guy for 3 months now, only held up from purchasing by my own internal hurdles to cross, every time I start to get excited about Zimbra, something like this happens. First Yahoo purchased you, which didn't seem like a good idea at the time, but I accepted it as part of corporate growth... And now MS wants to buy Yahoo?
I know theres a lot of things that need to happen before thats a done deal...
And I'm sure I'm saying everything that you already are thinking but...
1. people buy zimbra because they don't want/like/need exchange.
2. people buy zimbra because they don't want/like/need/use microsoft produtcts.
3. people buy zimbra because of your commitment to open standards use.
Microsoft's exchange team is having beer's already at 7:17am PST because of this, you know that, right?
We're concerened because we know what Microsoft does to the competition, and I'm pretty sure that this is a classic Ballmer Move... Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. MS just wants Yahoo's users and advertising business, everything else is secondary and in some cases (zimbra) Yahoo's assets are a threat to theirs (exchange) and will be extinguished.
I for one hope the creators of Zimbra were smart in their sale to Yahoo to protect against a take over that threatens their technology...
Sarcasticly speaking... How long till we see a full zimbra 5.0 NE feature set in the ZCS ?
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