[Cialug] microsoft+yahoo=?

kristau kristau at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 09:03:27 CST 2008


On Feb 3, 2008 10:43 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> I didn't know zimbra was by Yahoo. For a while Yahoo has been a company
> built on open source and to a great extent an open source supporter. I'm
> concerned about what would change if Yahoo became part of MS.

If MS buys Yahoo!:
* Zimbra will be aggressively replaced with Exchange via cheap/free "upgrades."
* Yahoo's Apache/Linux boxen will get replaced with IIS/Windows (and
they will need twice as many to do the job).
* Microsoft's search will still suck.

Tongue firmly in cheek, of course ;)
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