Yahoo just announce on its press release a planned acquisition of Zimbra, a leader in next generation e-mail and collaboration software to a whopping $350 million.
According to the press release
The acquisition of Zimbra will help Yahoo! to expand its presence in universities, businesses and through ISPs by enabling organizations to host e-mail on or off premises with their own domain. Zimbra’s offerings include rich, AJAX-based e-mail, calendar, and contact management features that can be used both on and offline. Their open platform enhances the user experience by enabling creative mash-ups called Zimlets that tie in valuable Web services to e-mail, and can be tailored to fit the needs of every customer.
Yodel’s Blog also stressed out the planned acquisition on his blog.
Zimbra offers incredible technology. We see great opportunities to incorporate some of their best-of-breed features (I really like their calendaring) into Yahoo!’s industry-leading communications products.
You can go to Zimbra at www.zimbra.com, let us see how yahoo improves its services with this acquisition.
1 Comment Received
September 18th, 2007 @1:08 pm
Hmm this is interesting I wonder if it will open the way for the last of the “Big” 3. Scalix was sold and now appears to be done. With Zimbra being boughtout that leaves http://www.open-xchange.com
Open Xchange is still producing and has a new product out, its an easy install, nice user interface if there are any open source people out there. Question is where will it leave Zimbra? My guess is yahoo ruins them.
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