Comments on: In Acquiring Zimbra, VMware Moves Squarely Toward Apps and Collaboration

By: What Should One Make of VMware’s Shopping Spree?

What Should One Make of VMware’s Shopping Spree? — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:01:39 +0000

[...] Zimbra, Jan. 2010, price undisclosed: When VMware purchased Zimbra’s hosted email from Yahoo it was an acknowledgment that providing a platform might not be enough because platforms rarely sell themselves to VMware’s enterprise customer base, apps do. For customers needing a more visible value-add in order to hop onto the VMware platform, Zimbra was the icing on the PaaS. [...]

By: VMware in Talks to Acquire EngineYard

VMware in Talks to Acquire EngineYard — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:52:12 +0000

[...] has been buying startups such as Zimbra, SpringSource and others as it works to transition from providing a hypervisor to offering [...]

By: The Cloud Collaboration Wars Ramp Up – GigaOM

The Cloud Collaboration Wars Ramp Up – GigaOM — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:27:27 +0000

[...] business adoption. VMware / Zimbra VMware boldly entered the cloud collaboration race when it acquired Zimbra in January. Largely hidden within Yahoo! from its initial acquisition, Zimbra will now get the support needed [...]

By: Eyeing the Cloud, VMware Looks to Double Down On Virtualization Efficiency – GigaOM

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:49:02 +0000

[...] to gain a foothold with application developers and the open source community, and more recently, buying Zimbra, which offers cloud-based mail and collaboration applications. The acquisitions have been widely [...]

By: The Email Wars Continue as IBM Scores a Victory – GigaOM

The Email Wars Continue as IBM Scores a Victory – GigaOM — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:40:14 +0000

[...] In Acquiring Zimbra, VMware Moves Squarely Toward Apps and Collaboration [...]

By: links for 2010-01-13 « burningCat

links for 2010-01-13 « burningCat — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:37:11 +0000

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By: Virtualisation and the Chances of a Google Chrome App Store « OUseful.Info, the blog…

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:24:42 +0000

[...] VMWare today announced it had bought Zimbra, providers of online email and collaboration apps (In Acquiring Zimbra, VMware Moves Squarely Toward Apps and Collaboration). WTF is going [...]

By: Gaith

Gaith — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:40:09 +0000

Zimbra going out of Yahoo hand! mybloglog to shut down.
Yahoo missed social media and real innovation. Mybloglog could have been friendfeed. but no single development since its acquisition. and they will shut it down.
why did yahoo buy zimbra at the 1st place to sell it again?