Yahoo! is to pay roughly $350m for Zimbra, a San Mateo, California company that specializes in open-source email and collaboration software. It looks like Yahoo! plans to use Zimbra's new-age Exchange competitor to "expand its presence" in universities, businesses, and ISPs. "Zimbra's tremendous talent and innovative technology …
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Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 00:17 GMT
So this means that 6 months after acquiring Zimbra, they'll go dumb and rebrand it into Yahoo! Enterprise Mail or something as stupid as that and screw up the product.
Bah. And a decent product that is, unlike Konfabulator which looks nice but isn't that good though.
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 04:22 GMT
It's Georgia Institute of Technology, actually.
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 08:56 GMT
wasn't the Talking Heads song called I Zimba? Without the R?
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 11:07 GMT
"But unlike Exchange, the AJAX-based suite serves things up to ordinary web browsers."
Like Exchange's Outlook Web Access does, you mean?
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 11:07 GMT
"wasn't the Talking Heads song called I Zimba? Without the R?"
No.
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 13:39 GMT
OWA is very cludgy to use. I've never used Zimbra, but it'd better be easier to use, seeing as OWA is an afterthought for Microsoft.
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 14:09 GMT
Well well well - I went and checked my CD collection and I was wrong all along. Thanks Reg and thanks Mark Richards for helping me know more about my own CD collection.
Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 14:09 GMT
When I saw the headline I assumed it would be "Road to Nowhere".
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