Today I caught a tweet from Kara Swisher referencing some exclusive news she posted on Boomtown about VMware’s upcoming deal to buy Zimbra from Yahoo! This is would be VMware’s second acquisition of an open source ISV in under a year. In August 2009 VMware acquired open source java vendor SpringSource that not only developed [...]
Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]
I use Zimbra for my mail server and I am happy to see Zimbra now supports CalDAV. This means you now can sync your calendar for Mac OS X using Mail.app and iCal without and third-party add-ons. To setup a CalDAV account in Mail.app: Go to Preferences > Accounts and click the "Plus" button to [...]
