A short summary of who’ll do badly out of the deal:
- Zimbra
- Direct competitor to exchange
- Firefox
- Customised version distributed and recommended by Yahoo!—direct competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- del.icio.us, Flickr
- Not a chance in hell of them surviving without being sold off or spun out. They’ll either get borged or neglected—neither would be good.
- Anybody smart and clued at Yahoo! at all, for example Jeremy Zawodny.
- Because geeks who are big on LAMP and open standards are going to love working for Microsoft.