In another desperate Microsoft-bashing event, eWeek (surprise!) is predicting the end of Microsoft in a desperation move to buy Zimbra. Yeah. Forget the advertising. Forget IM share. Forget the webmail dominance in the consumer space..
It’s all about Zimbra..
Yeah. Sure. Cause that’s whats replacing corporate email, a webmail client. But of course, an AJAX frontend is a good replacement for Identity Management, integration into the unified communications for seamless IM/voice/voicemail, content sharing controls that support encryption, IRM, RPC over HTTP, push sync built in..
Oh, yeah. It’s got none of that!
Let’s face some reality, shall we? We’re talking about webmail people, the black hole of portal’s budgets. This, Google’s other solution which years into the service still bears the Beta tag which in the Web 2.0 world means – we’re losing money big, we can’t make money at it, please click on the ads. Every commercial reincarnation of which has failed – for bCentral, for Hotmail, for Yahoo, for Excite…
And he huffed puffed and blew the story down…
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