Microsoft buying Yahoo!
Just heard a report that Microsoft is willing to purchase Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. From a messaging pespective, this would give Microsoft a huge addition to its consumer email base and would give Microsoft Zimbra, a very nice offering that includes business-grade email, archiving and other capabilities.
posted by Michael D. Osterman at
2/01/2008 03:39:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Michael,
As I noted in my own post on this possible MS-Yahoo! partnership, it's unclear to me what value Zimbra would be to MS, other than as a way of removing a competitor from the enterprise email market.
Cheers,
Andrew
February 1, 2008 2:23 PM
Perhaps the value of Zimbra to Microsoft would have been to position the offering between Exchange as an enterprise offering and Hotmail as a consumer offering. This would have allowed Zimbra to be marketed to sophisticated SMBs, although it clearly would represent competition to Exchange for many organizations.
February 12, 2008 11:34 AM
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