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VMware announced last week, that it’s acquiring email and collaboration service Zimbra from Yahoo. With the agreed-upon acquisition of Zimbra , VMware gains a provider of e-mail and collaboration software that boasts a customer base of “over 55 million mailboxes,” said a VMware news release Jan. 12.
The pair may seem like an odd match especially with Zimbra’s deals with Internet providers like Comcast and universities like Stanford. This means many of its users are probably consumers and students, not corporate users. What proved to be a not-so-perfect fit for Yahoo may prove to be just what VMware needs as it moves to provide more services based around its virtualization offerings.
The acquisition suggests that VMware wants to expand into apps and collaboration. It should also help Zimbra sell itself in large, enterprise-size companies. “This is a first step of many we will take on a journey to offer a complete set of business services to our customers,” Tod Nielsen, of VMware said, “We are moving up the stack.”
It’s expected that VMware will also be willing to invest in improving Zimbra, which means users can expect to see improved features. Some of those features may be real-time communication, collaborative work spaces, and team scheduling.
Nielsen said the first step with Zimbra is to make it available to all of VMware’s vCloud partners. He said the company plans to invest in beefing up the Zimbra solution, including adding additional testing resources and increasing scale. “And we’ll continue to improve synergies between our virtualization engine and the Zimbra technology,” Neilsen revealed.
The Jan 12 news release also said “VMware plans to support existing Zimbra products and open-source efforts while further optimizing Zimbra products for [VMware's] vSphere-based cloud infrastructure, alongside Microsoft, IBM and other messaging and collaboration solutions.”
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