Archive for September 17th, 2007

Yahoo planning an enterprise strike? »

TechBizMedia and others have reported about Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra, the open source enterprise messaging company. Zimbra has made collaboration easier with their suite containing email, contacts, shared calendar, VOIP, online document authoring, etc. Zimbra already boasts of powerful clients like Comcast, educational institutions, etc. Yahoo has already teamed up with IBM to develop an [...]

Yahoo enters the web office space »

TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo has acquired the office suite Zimbra for $35MM in cash. If this news is confirmed, its huge. Yahoo is laying down the gauntlet here, to Microsoft, and especially to Google.
Is this a smart decision? Should Yahoo play Google’s game again? The web office space is still [...]