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Yahoo might sell open source firm Zimbra
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 21:30 IST
Bangalore: Yahoo might sell Zimbra, the open-source email and collaboration outfit it acquired just two years ago for $350 million, according to All Things Digital. Comcast and Google might be the potential buyers for Zimbra.
Zimbra's open source package powers the communications suite of Comcast which it uses to serve broadband customers. Google on the other hand is a rival to Zimbra as Google also offers its own email and collaboration tools via its web-based Google Apps suite. Zimbra open source community has 30,000-developers and drives more than 50,000 open source downloads a month. Zimbra tech is also part of Yahoo's web-based mail and calendar tools. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) provides email, contacts, calendar, search, VoIP, and doc-authoring tools. It can be used either as an exchange - like in-house server or as a web-based solution hosted by Yahoo. According to the company, it's now powering more than 50 million paid mailboxes worldwide.
Yahoo spokeswoman has declined to comment on the speculations. It looks like Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is trying to slim the company down to shift from tech outfit to advertisement focused revenue model.