VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Zimbra, which provides a solution for advanced messaging and collaboration, from Yahoo.
The acquisition comes under VMware to offer solutions that simplify the complexity of data centers, desktops and application development and IT services, and offer a new approach and more efficient IT.
Zimbra is an open source solution for email and collaboration, with over 55 million mailboxes. As an independent products division of Yahoo, Zimbra in 2009 achieved a 86% growth of email boxes and 165% among customers of Small and Medium Companies.
Based on modern architecture and flexible, designed for virtualization and cloud infrastructure, technology, Zimbra provides a lower total cost of ownership of traditional solutions. Zimbra offers a full range of features, excellent interoperability with legacy environments and has been deployed in environments of any size, or as software installed and managed internally by thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises and large companies both as a hosted service with some great service providers such as Comcast and NTT Communications.
VMware plans to support existing products Zimbra and commitment to open source and simultaneously to optimize the products Zimbra cloud-based infrastructure vSphere, along with messaging and collaboration solutions from Microsoft and IBM.
Under the agreement, VMware will acquire all technology and intellectual property of Zimbra. Yahoo! Have the right to continue to use the Zimbra technology in their communications services, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Calendar.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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