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Yahoo! buys Zimbra
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo! has paid $350 million to purchase Zimbra. The official announcement isn't expected until this evening, but Arrington's in a pretty good position to pick up gossip today. He's hanging out with a ton of industry insiders today at a little software conference Arrington put together with Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis called TechCrunch40.So we're going to assume his information is good and enter the world of wild speculation.
Zimbra makes some impressive open source communication tools for online/offline use. The company has a powerful e-mail client, calendar, and VoIP features.
While it's unlikely that Yahoo! plans to completely overhaul its e-mail client yet again, we could see Zimbra features showing up in Yahoo! services. Particularly the slick AJAX interfaces, the powerful collaboration tools, and the online/offline functionality.
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henri said 4:50PM on 9-17-2007
The deal is confirm : http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/09/17/zimbra-is-so-damn-cool/
henri (http://www.2803.com)
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henri said 4:52PM on 9-17-2007
the deal is confirm : http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/09/17/zimbra-is-so-damn-cool/
henri (http://www.2803.com)
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mustra said 5:17PM on 9-17-2007
Awesome waste of money ! =)
Jmus (http://ultraside.blogspot.com)
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Joe Beaulaurier said 7:04PM on 9-17-2007
When I was introduced to Zimbra just weeks ago, I thought to myself, "My gosh, Yahoo! needs to pick this up." Lo and behold, that's just what they did. There's a bunch of goodies in the Zimbra platform that would embellish the existing email and PIM properties at Yahoo!. Good thinking on their part.
The bad news is we now have to wait and wait and wait while they meld it into the Yahoo! properties. I have no patience for due diligence.
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Gautam said 9:56AM on 9-20-2007
The acquisition is expectd to help the cause of Ajax too!!
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