We are excited to announce today that Yahoo! is acquiring Zimbra to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed to the community and to our customers and partners while leveraging opportunities to enhance their current experience.
We will continue to make our software available for download and continue to offer Zimbra software and support as usual. This evolution further allows Zimbra to exceed its current (and future) customer expectations by leveraging the world class Yahoo! email experience and expertise. Partnering continues to be a very important pillar of Yahoo!’s strategy and this combination will have a renewed focus on partnerships across the globe including our 350+ VAR and hosting partners. The combination of the two companies will only enhance the level of commitment and support to our hosting partners who will remain a key focus for us moving forward.
Yahoo! is also a major proponent of open technologies and this combination is a further testament to how serious they are about their intentions. You will continue to see active participation in developer APIs and forums. We are committed to continue keeping the source open available for use and we will continue to offer the network version that will contain value added proprietary features on top of the open product.
At the heart of this merger is the conviction that email is a core application and Yahoo! can continue to expand its leadership to new markets using Zimbra. For Zimbra, it was the opportunity to grow our footprint at an accelerated pace and the opportunity to provide innovative and new ways to use Yahoo!’s vast SDKs, trusted brand, vast network of users, great communication applications, core email technology like anti-spam and search as well as its ad network to bring in innovative combined solutions to markets that are still left untapped. At every step of the way, we will ensure that Customers have the freedom of choice in what they deploy.
The Zimbra vision has always been that there is a need for an innovative collaboration application for the markets that large corporations have ignored traditionally. We had a vision where the browser was the center of everything a consumer or an office worker needed to accomplish. We were the first to offer a fully offline version of our AJAX application. Together, Yahoo! and Zimbra will continue to deliver on this vision of bringing the richest most collaborative applications to your work place, to your school and to your homes. This is what we will set to do in the coming years.
The combination of these two companies allows us to further enhance our commitment to our markets, our customers, our partners and our community and extend our respective leadership positions. Thank you for all of your support so far and we’re thrilled at the possibilities ahead as we merge these two world-class teams to deliver the best possible experience for our users.
on September 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
We really should have the usual collection of buttons:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yahoo_Acquires_Zimbra
on September 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Congratulations to the Zimbra team!
01.com, a Zimbra hosting and integrator partner, welcomes the new opportunities created by the partnership between Zimbra and Yahoo.
Congratulations to Yahoo, too, for recognizing the value delivered by the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and the partners that have worked to evangelize and support it.
http://www.01.com
on September 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Congratulations to the Zimbra team, its a good time to be into business speed track.
on September 17th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Congrats to both of you …
This must be an unforgettable moment your staff is enjoying. Sure everyone will be celebrating after work
on September 17th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Congrats Satish. It’ll be interesting to see how Yahoo manages the integration of Zimbra.
on September 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Satish.
Congratulations! Great to hear the news
Satish Mummadi
Boston, MA
on September 17th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Congratulations on your company’s acquisition by Yahoo!
on September 17th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Congratulation to both companies. It will be exciting to see the expansion.
on September 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Congrats Zimbra and Yahoo!
Hopefully this works out well
on September 17th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I was beginning to wonder what the hell was happening with Yahoo! lately. We keep on only hearing about Google acqs.
on September 17th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I was excited to hear that acquisition. Well done for Yahoo and congratulations Zimbra. Such a good solution has far more ways to go and this cooperation will make it much much faster.
Gokalp Cakici
Turkiye
on September 17th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
congratulations !!
– benoit
on September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Congratulations !!! great to see real talent rewarded.
on September 17th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Hey Satish and Team,
Congrats!
This is a great success story that validates that Startups can change the rules of the game and give run for the money to incumbents who take users for granted
Cheers
–Subra
on September 17th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Congratulations to the Zimbra team. Please don’t lose your individuality after becoming part of the Yahoo collective
Cheers,
Andy Wang
on September 17th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Gmail Competitor ?
on September 17th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I think its a great success for yahoo. and I hope this will work well.
on September 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
You people gave a facelift and openness that email space required. It will be a big question as to how Yahoo will position this — probably a SAAS play, which would add only incremental value to SOHO companies which would be interested in this (compared to current hosted mail offerings).
An enterprise play, directly pitting against Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes would be far more interesting - no sizable companies would want to host their emails, from security as well as availability point of view. (If and when we have big companies adopting SAAS for email, that would truly be end of enterprise application space!)
Such an enterprise play would greatly help industry - by reduce costs of managing email, increasing web applications directly integrated with email.
on September 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Congratulations to both Yahoo & Zimbra teams! Zimbra is a great software product & has demonstrated the power of AJAX.
Satish, you no doubt have inspired many entrepreneurs around the world!
on September 18th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Congratulations !
As others, I really hope that ZCS will continue like that.
I’m using the open-source version, it’s a very good product.
on September 18th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Congratz @ Zimbra Team, good news and fresh money for new developments
Cheers
– seekXL
on September 18th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Congrats. Hope this will help you to be more innovative.
on September 18th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Congratulations from Germany,
we are great fan of your software.
Cheers
Joerg
on September 18th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I congratulate the Zimbra team for all the work and effort that has brought Zimbra as far as it has.
Having run a successful software company in the past, I understand first-hand all the factors that likely went into the decision.
With all due respect, however, I have to admit I’m very disappointed with the news. I was really attracted to Zimbra for its willingness to buck the trend and make a go at it. I understand the financial attractiveness of the acquisition and what it potentially brings, but unfortunately I do not put a lot of faith in the long-term prospects of the Zimbra name continuing to stand for what it has in the past.
Mark
on September 18th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Its great news. keep it up guys!
on September 18th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Congrats Zimbra team!! You deserve to be part of Yahoo!!
on September 18th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Great news, cheers!
on September 18th, 2007 at 7:49 am
A tiny bit of advice for yahoo…please don’t try and fix what is not broken. Zimbra is an excellent product, with excellent community and tech support…
on September 18th, 2007 at 7:51 am
congratulations !! Really a beautiful and very good news !
on September 18th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Good luck to help spreading open source software at a glance!
- thomas
on September 18th, 2007 at 9:36 am
WAWWWW
Great NEWS>/////////
Cheers
Noushad
on September 18th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Congrats!! We all are looking towards even mature and powerful open source Zimbra suit of products.
on September 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I hope Zimbra stays Open Source and maybe, just maybe, all facets of the product will be Open Source.
It would be nice to see Yahoo! give away the Network edition to boost it’s presence as a vaible Exchange contender.
Stay Open, Stay Free!
on September 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Congrats Zimbra.
on September 18th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Very good news , It is recoginization for OpenSource Talent
Congrats
Thanks
Joseph John
on September 19th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Satish,
Congratualtions! I knew the work I had you and Prashant do for your assistantship duties in distributed simulations would one day payoff (what?)! All of your old Clemson professors are super proud of you! Drop me a note sometime and we can catch up.
Jack
on September 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Wow, this is a great deal. Congratulation to Zimbra Team.
Vavai - Indonesia
on September 20th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Congratulations Satish,
Now Google will know that it isn’t the world.
Sai
on September 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Congratulations to all of you. Good luck. I know Boom Boom will be delighted.
Lou.
on September 20th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Satish,
He then said, ” Its not everyday that I get to a see known face on the NY Times.” I had to get it across to you!
Congratulations on your achievement! I got to know about this first from my dad, who is in Philly now. During one of our chat sessions, he waved the NY times at me and asked me to guess who it was on the picture. I did guess it right
Wishing you all the best!
Rani
on September 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
Great news !
on September 23rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Congrats!!!
on September 28th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
Gavino
on October 24th, 2007 at 2:34 am
Congratulation to the whole Zimbra team.
Its a great move and hope we will still the great support and extended functionalities that we all Zimbra fans want to have.
And hope it does not stop here..
Regards,
Prashant
on October 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Satish is a ROCK STAR!!!
on October 31st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Congratulations to Zimbra for this big Deal!
on November 7th, 2007 at 7:12 am
thank you
on November 30th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
on December 11th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Congratulations!
Like others, I sincerely hope that ZCS will continue like that.
I use open source version, it is a very good product.
on December 21st, 2007 at 8:21 am
Satish is a heavy meatal and ROCK STAR!!!
on December 21st, 2007 at 10:01 am
thanks for this writing
on December 21st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Great news, congratulations..
on December 27th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Congratulation to the whole Zimbra team.
Its a great move and hope we will still the great support and extended functionalities that we all Zimbra fans want to have.
oyun
küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması
on December 27th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
on December 27th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Congrats Zimbra and Yahoo!
Thanks
Hopefully this works out well
on May 27th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Congrats Zimbra and Yahoo!
on May 27th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Congratualtions!!The OpenSource is alive.
Thanks
on August 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Congratulation to the whole Zimbra team.
Its a great move and hope we will still the great support and extended functionalities that we all Zimbra fans want to have.