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

[Carl Friedberg]

Ron,

> ...  Anyone remember the debacle when Microsoft
> bought Hotmail?  This is going to be orders of 
> magnitude worse.

I was not a Hotmail user at that time. I did,
however, follow some discussions back then.

At first, MS left Hotmail alone. I believe the
integration to an MS backend was just after IIS
5.0 was released (so it was Windows 2000, or
perhaps a bit earlier).

MS did have to put a significant effort into
moving from *N*X to MS ware. As a result, they
rewrote IIS 6, and included an XML configurator
instead of the binary configuration files which
were used earlier.

Microsoft might learn even more when they try to 
integrate Yahoo. MS will pay to move an awful
lot of content to Windows Server, IIS, etc.
technologies. Aside from the rock around the neck, 
it is conceivable that some of the MS products 
will become more stable and more usable when MS 
has to eat more of their disgusting dogfood.

Just a thought.

Carl Friedberg