MPP and Beyond

If Microsoft were to acquire Yahoo, what would happen to Zimbra? Anyone’s guess is welcome. If Zimbra survived it would be a huge step for MSFT as they would be supporting the Linux based collaboration market. The Exchange replacement market is gaining steam, though I don’t know if MSFT feels this or not. If they killed Zimbra they would anger a lot of people in the Linux community as well as some pretty big customers. I’m sure that Cox and others who made big bets on Zimbra would be very angry if MSFT shut that product down. My guess is that they will spin it off and avoid the whole headache. I would love to hear other’s thoughts.

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