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"As Yahoo continues to refine and redefine itself, it's been offloading and shuttering some services in an effort to slim down (RIP Geocities!). One of the divisions that's been on the auction block since September is Zimbra, an open-source e-mail company Yahoo acquired in September 2007 for $350 million.\nAccording to All Things Digital, Yahoo is about to finalize a sale to VMware, a company that focuses on virtualization software for running multiple operating systems on a single computer. That company's interest in Zimbra seems to be a strategy of reaching \"up the stack\" to expand its software base for business interests.\nYahoo had originally hoped that the Zimbra acquisition would help improve Yahoo Mail and give the company a foothold into the white-label e-mail business, but that synergy never really came about. Although some aspects of Zimbra did make their way into Yahoo Mail \u2014 enough to potentially complicate an assets sale \u2014 Yahoo is no longer interested in operating the Zimbra white-label commercial product.\nThere's no word on the sale price yet, and until the deal is final, it's still technically up in the air. Are there any Zimbra users out there hoping a new owner can breathe new life into the product?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2010/01/04/vmware-buys-zimbra-from-yahoo/>