There are, or rather were, several products marketing themselves as Exchange Server replacements that really have become media darlings in the open source and Linux communities. These include Scalix, Zimbra, OpenXChange, PostPath, and even Axigen (I am doing a review of Axigen which will be posted in this channel in September).
Well Cisco has just acquired PostPath for $215 million US. Last year, Yahoo! purchased popular startup Zimbra. Work on the current version of Zimbra has continued at Yahoo!, but how Zimbra will evolve as a result of the acquisition is unknown. This is especially true with threats of a Microsoft merger, too.
Do these acquisitions validate the value and performance of these alternative messaging and collaboration solutions or do they add to insecurities that the products may not be around in their current form for the long term?
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