There are reports that Yahoo has put Zimbra on the block. Honestly, this came
as no surprise at all to us at Zoho.
I remember scratching my head when the acquisition was made; I didn't see how
an enterprise/business focused open source offering like Zimbra fit with
Yahoo, as a technology, as a business or strategically. Zimbra is an open
source installable product offering primarily intended to be installed within
medium to large organizations. Yahoo has never made an installed product in
its history and is mainly focused on consumers, with an occasional foray to
sell those consumer-focused applications to small businesses.
Zimbra's service provider offerings made no strategic sense to Yahoo either,
because Yahoo, being a service provider itself, has no interest in selling ... (more)
Sridhar Vembu's blog
Yesterday Microsoft launched its Azure cloud platform, so it is time for
another spreadsheet. To properly compare Microsoft, Google and Amazon, I am
using the gross profit (instead of revenue) and net profit numbers. Gross
profit is, in some sense, the real revenue of a company after paying its
outside suppliers; gross profit is what is available to pay its employees,... (more)
By now it is conventional wisdom to say that there was an IBM Era of
computing, then a Microsoft Era, and now we are in the Google Era. In this
post, I will explain why Microsoft was not the “next IBM” and why
Google is not the “next Microsoft” - there are significant
qualitative differences among them, quite apart from their status as the
dominant, era-defining p... (more)