[General] Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

[Burhan Khalid]

If Zimbra died, I wouldn't care much. That software really needs to die a 
quiet death. Almost as bloated as Exchange.
On Saturday 02 February 2008 10:50:50 Majed B. wrote:
> Dude, employees aren't the ones I'm worried about; Google would be
> more than happy to pick them up. What I worry about is the Open-Source
> E-Mail service Yahoo! acquired: Zimbra.
>
> If the acquisition goes through, Zimbra would surely be shot dead
> since it competes with Exchange on the SMB market (Small & Medium
> Businesses).
>
> As Burhan said, MS is after the ad pages like geocities & online shops
> (Yahoo! online shops are used on ebay as well). Another thing MS would
> benefit from is the existing user-base of emails, yahoo-groups, flickr
> and other services Yahoo! offers.