Zimbra acquired by VMware | Early Bert
It will now few noticed that VMware's open source collaboration company Zimbra took over. What remains very unclear so far are the reasons for the acquisition. From a strategic point of view I think there are two: A defensive action: VMware is so far the most dominant provider of virtualization platforms. The virtual machines running on that platform for a large part Windows machines. Now, however, Microsoft itself cognizant increasingly making progress in its own Hyper-V virtualization layer, VMware will this dominant position may start to lose in the long run. By itself to focus more on applications on top of the platform with VMware Zimbra - and future others - maintain its position next to Microsoft. Offensive cognizant action: VMware sees cloud computing as the future and considers its virtualization platform as the most appropriate cognizant for this purpose. However, this alone provides a IaaS (infrastructure as a service), whereby third parties should take the higher layers. Think of operating systems, applications and development platforms. With the acquisition of Zimbra - and future others - VMware can ensure that the next IaaS also a player on deer in SaaS (software as service s).
Although it is not clear which of these two interpretations is the most obvious to me, I still bet on the second. Anyhow, there will be more similar acquisitions cognizant to follow. You might think of SugarCRM (Customer Relationship Managenent), Compiere (ERP) or Alfresco (Enterprise Content Management).
If similar cognizant acquisitions not follow, I expect Zimbra sold again within a few years - or even liquidated - will be. That is not to hope, incidentally, because that would be a signal that VMware in 2010 was really lost. The doomsayers who predict that VMware waiting will be the same fate as Novell time in the network area then get unfortunately right.
The strategy of vmware is clear, they want to offer a flexible and consistent infrastructure and are busy to focus to be able to offer this from the cloud. The easiest way is to use their own quote without going to translate it.
"VMware's mission is to simplify IT, and every VMware product Focuses on attacking the complexity and rigidity That HAS crept into this world. In many ways we see the excitement on cloud computing to be a longing for a simpler, more flexible way of doing computing. "
If you know the strategy of vmware and you know zimbra an open source email, calendar and collaboration functionality in it then I think this acquisition is certainly a good acquisition. Zimbra is also very popular and is not used or offered by the smallest organizations.
Cloud is the hype and cloud is the future. With this acquisition, vmware next IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) now offer SaaS (Software as a Service). IaaS could vmware already offer their vSphere infrastructure software, Easter they offer through their acquisition of SpringSource and Easter, they can now offer through the acquisition of Zimbra.
I think the biggest challenge is to vmware (already) to allow countries to align their organization and together these acquisitions. And further on vmware from a different line of approach than eg Google and Microsoft. VMware still has a reputation as hardware virtualization software. Microsoft and Google on the other hand have been providing online services.
A legitimate concern. What open source is concerned, such an acquisition some similarities with the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. In both cases, the new mother is not really known yet as open source fanatic ...
[...] VMware is reversing its earlier acquisition of Zimbra and sells the collaboration software to Telligent. Looking at the arguments now I had to think back to the arguments then. [...]
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It will now few noticed that VMware's open source collaboration company Zimbra took over. What remains very unclear so far are the reasons for the acquisition. From a strategic point of view I think there are two: A defensive action: VMware is so far the most dominant provider of virtualization platforms. The virtual machines running on that platform for a large part Windows machines. Now, however, Microsoft itself cognizant increasingly making progress in its own Hyper-V virtualization layer, VMware will this dominant position may start to lose in the long run. By itself to focus more on applications on top of the platform with VMware Zimbra - and future others - maintain its position next to Microsoft. Offensive cognizant action: VMware sees cloud computing as the future and considers its virtualization platform as the most appropriate cognizant for this purpose. However, this alone provides a IaaS (infrastructure as a service), whereby third parties should take the higher layers. Think of operating systems, applications and development platforms. With the acquisition of Zimbra - and future others - VMware can ensure that the next IaaS also a player on deer in SaaS (software as service s).
Although it is not clear which of these two interpretations is the most obvious to me, I still bet on the second. Anyhow, there will be more similar acquisitions cognizant to follow. You might think of SugarCRM (Customer Relationship Managenent), Compiere (ERP) or Alfresco (Enterprise Content Management).
If similar cognizant acquisitions not follow, I expect Zimbra sold again within a few years - or even liquidated - will be. That is not to hope, incidentally, because that would be a signal that VMware in 2010 was really lost. The doomsayers who predict that VMware waiting will be the same fate as Novell time in the network area then get unfortunately right.
The strategy of vmware is clear, they want to offer a flexible and consistent infrastructure and are busy to focus to be able to offer this from the cloud. The easiest way is to use their own quote without going to translate it.
"VMware's mission is to simplify IT, and every VMware product Focuses on attacking the complexity and rigidity That HAS crept into this world. In many ways we see the excitement on cloud computing to be a longing for a simpler, more flexible way of doing computing. "
If you know the strategy of vmware and you know zimbra an open source email, calendar and collaboration functionality in it then I think this acquisition is certainly a good acquisition. Zimbra is also very popular and is not used or offered by the smallest organizations.
Cloud is the hype and cloud is the future. With this acquisition, vmware next IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) now offer SaaS (Software as a Service). IaaS could vmware already offer their vSphere infrastructure software, Easter they offer through their acquisition of SpringSource and Easter, they can now offer through the acquisition of Zimbra.
I think the biggest challenge is to vmware (already) to allow countries to align their organization and together these acquisitions. And further on vmware from a different line of approach than eg Google and Microsoft. VMware still has a reputation as hardware virtualization software. Microsoft and Google on the other hand have been providing online services.
A legitimate concern. What open source is concerned, such an acquisition some similarities with the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. In both cases, the new mother is not really known yet as open source fanatic ...
[...] VMware is reversing its earlier acquisition of Zimbra and sells the collaboration software to Telligent. Looking at the arguments now I had to think back to the arguments then. [...]
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