[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Ron Guerin]

Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Zimbra, Flickr, and everything else at Yahoo have no future if the
>> Microsoft purchase goes through.  Open stuff like Zimbra will be buried
>> and replaced with Microsoft products (Exchange) and things like Flickr
>> will be "Microsoftized" into the kinds of hideous things like Microsoft
>> makes themselves.
> 
>    I can see the new sticker now: "Hideous Inside".

I question that it makes any sense for Microsoft to be in the search 
business at all, let alone needing to be the king.  I think Microsoft's 
Google obsession has finally driven them insane, and that after Google 
makes this purchase as expensive and inconvenient as possible for 
Microsoft, Yahoo will be like a cinder block around the neck of 
Microhoo.  They can't not change it all to Windows, and doing so is a 
nightmare of epic proportions that should keep Microsoft from doing much 
of anything else for years.  Anyone remember the debacle when Microsoft 
bought Hotmail?  This is going to be orders of magnitude worse.

- Ron