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

[Henning Follmann]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 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

Wired summed it up very nicely:
Do two loser make a winner?

Henning

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