April 7, 2008 — A major open source player in the email/groupware category may fall victim to Microsoft’s latest acquisition plans. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite, an “Exchange-like” email and collaboration server which is available in both a commercial version and a community (free) edition, may just disappear if Yahoo is purchased by Microsoft. Yahoo bought Zimbra towards the end of 2007, and in doing so became one of the largest competitors to Microsoft’s Exchange (especially in Europe). With the possibility of Microsoft now acquiring Yahoo, the future of this excellent product is uncertain.
A grass roots movement has begun to at least save the community (free) edition of Zimbra while also raising questions involving anti-trust, etc. If you are interested in saving Zimbra, voting “yes” for open source, or just learning more, please go to FreeZimbraNow.org .
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