[GLLUG] Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo!

Eduardo Cesconetto eduardo at cesconetto.com
Fri Feb 1 10:28:34 EST 2008


Thta is exactly the point I was trying to make on the previous  
discussion, one way or another, all O.S. initiatives will eventually  
turn commercial...


On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Michael George wrote:

> Not only that, but Yahoo bought Zimbra last September.  If MS gets  
> their
> hands  on Yahoo, what will happen to Zimbra?
>
> On Fri, February 1, 2008 9:13 am, Michael Rudas wrote:
>> Yow!  I hope this DOESN'T happen... who needs another Hotmail?  Yahoo
>> is a big user of Unix for its mail servers -- so was Hotmail before
>> the MS purchase.
>>
>> Since Yahoo! is my content provider, this could be a major
>> annoyance... I hope antitrust issues prevent this from happening --
>> but with the current Bush administration, who knows?
>
>
> -Michael George
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