It has been known for quite some time that Yahoo are trying to make bold changes internally. Products have been shut down (eg. Yahoo Live and Geocities) and it has been rumored that Zimbra has been up for sale for quite a few months by now.
If VMware ends up acquiring Zimbra it’s a very strange deal, but it might make sense. With VMware’s virtualization expertise, they might very well be able turn Zimbra into a powerful virtual appliance. That could work both sell it as a software appliance (just the virtual machine) as well as a hardware appliance (hardware). Combined with VMware’s virtualization product line, they can target everything from small business (VMware Server) to large enterprises (ESX). This could be a very serious threat to Microsoft Exchange.
If you have never heard about it, the 
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On the list of offenses that can be committed via email, many of us are guilty of petty crimes. Whether sending a hasty email to the “wrong Bob”, accidentally replying to the entire department when you meant to send a heads-up to a co-worker, attaching the wrong document to a message, or perhaps mistakenly forwarding a message that contains past messages you’d rather the recipient hadn’t seen, most of the time an email gaffe ends up a non-issue or blows over pretty quietly. After all, to err is human.
Horde Groupware is probably not the first collaboration software that comes to mind when thinking about deploying a new system. Perhaps it should. Contrary to most of the popular collaboration software on the market such as Open-Xchange, Scalix and Zimbra, the guys behind Horde understands how to write efficient code and use appropriate tools (no Java, just plain PHP). 
It’s been a busy week. As a result, I haven’t been able to cover all the news that I would have liked to. Because of this, I thought it would be a good idea to write a combined post that outlines the news from this week that I failed to cover. 
I’m surprised how long time it took for Google to get their acts together and 
Just a few minutes ago, Hushmail 
This is pretty amazing. It must take some seriously incompetent IT people to lose 22 million emails (or perhaps an organized cover-up). But now we at least know that it’s possible.
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