[svlug] Time to dump those yahoo accounts

[Don Marti]

begin Christian Einfeldt quotation of Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:40:02PM -0800:

> Yeah, acceptance seems likely, but looky how much ground Microsoft will have to
> make up to catch Google:

The big impact will be the feature-development time
lost, while they move Yahoo's infrastructure over
to the MSFT platform.   (MSFT is actually much more
technically dogmatic than your typical Linux-using
company.)  It'll be like Hotmail, but on a larger scale.

No, wait, the biggest impact will be the massive
slaughter of all the grass-fed beef cattle in the
Bay Area, as the Google cafeteria stocks up on prime
rib for all those recruiting lunches.

TechCrunch on what gets consolidated with what:
  http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/02/microsoft-yahoo-what-will-stay-and-what-will-go/
  (the big one they missed: Yahoo Groups/Facebook,
  but MSFT hasn't bought Facebook yet.)

Dick Morrell on the impact on Zimbra:
  http://blog.dickmorrell.org/?p=532

Wikipedia article on the future of Zimbra:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxPro_2

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Don Marti                    
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