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

[Ajai Khattri]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:

> 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.

And at the end of the day, they will still have less market share than 
Google. Seems pointless to me. Maybe they are hoping it'll be like the 
Xbox?, i.e. bring out a product that loses money but keep going anyway 
until the market changes or they manage to bring out the next generation 
product that actually works pretty well.

But they have deep pockets: the Xbox lost $4bn in four years and 
even the 360 makes loss (slightly less of a loss but a loss all the same).


-- 
Aj.