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By Marco Foley on Sep. 19, 2007

Yahoo clearly will add a ton of value to its paid users. Unlike Google, Yahoo lacked a serious 'apps' offering, like the one Google has. While there were probably several people choosing Yahoo's premium service over hotmail, there was clearly a lot of collaboration features and 'small-company' features that were missing. Yahoo doesn't have any slick collaboration apps for the enterprise like Google Apps. They may look to beef up that side with another acquisition. OpenOffice, anyone?

By Bryce Chechenco on Feb. 19, 2008

I think Yahoo is better of merging with New Corp rather than getting (pardon my French) bitch-slapped by Microsoft.

As for the Zimbra acquisition, its good as a standalone business unit focused on delivering enterprise solutions which will be able to leverage some of Yahoo's other technologies and, to jmkent's point, by rounding out their offering with a couple of other acquisitions around other office productivity tools.