{"id":1039,"date":"2008-04-07T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/grass-roots-effort-to-save-zimbra-967\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:33:51","slug":"grass-roots-effort-to-save-zimbra-967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/grass-roots-effort-to-save-zimbra-967\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass Roots Effort to Save Zimbra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 April 7, 2008 &#8212;\u00a0 A major open source player in the email\/groupware category may fall victim to Microsoft&#8217;s latest acquisition plans. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.zimbra.com\">Zimbra<\/a> Collaboration Suite, an \u201cExchange-like\u201d 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/yahoo_acquires_zimbra.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Yahoo! Aqcuires Zimbra\">bought<\/a> Zimbra towards the end of 2007, and in doing so became one of the largest competitors to Microsoft&#8217;s Exchange (especially in Europe). With the possibility of Microsoft now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8301-13515_1-9912232-26.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Microsoft sets three week ultimatum for Yahoo! decision\">acquiring<\/a> Yahoo, the future of this excellent product is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A 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 \u201cyes\u201d for open source, or just learning more, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freezimbranow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"FreeZimbraNow.org\">FreeZimbraNow.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">{mos_fb_discuss:131}\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 April 7, 2008 &#8212;\u00a0 A major open source player in the email\/groupware category may fall victim to Microsoft&#8217;s latest acquisition plans. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite, an \u201cExchange-like\u201d 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. 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