Yahoo! is unloading Zimbra, HotJobs, other properties

Filed under: E-mail, Yahoo!, Open Source

It seems like just two years ago that Yahoo! bought open source communication platform Zimbra for $350 million. Oh right, that's because it was. But today it looks like Yahoo! is looking to sell Zimbra, along with a number of other properties that don't fit the company's streamlined mission statement including HotJobs.

While Zimbra's advanced email tools certainly made their mark on the recently updated Yahoo! Mail web client, but Zimbra's real strength lies in the fact that you can deploy the software on your own server and create a corporate network for email, chat, and calendar sharing. And that's not necessarily a business Yahoo! wants to be in right now. Instead the company is focusing on its consumer oriented products.

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