Cloud Computing: VMware Sells Off Zimbra In Latest Chapter Of Its Corporate Makeover
July 16, 2013
Grazed from CRN. Author: Keving McLaughlin.
VMware has sold its Zimbra suite of open source SaaS productivity apps to Telligent, a Dallas-based enterprise social software vendor. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Telligent is getting Zimbra’s core team of employees, as well as its product IP and customer and partner relationships. After the deal closes, Telligent will rebrand itself as Zimbra.
VMware is focusing on software-defined data center, hybrid cloud and end-user computing, and Zimbra is its latest move to sell off a unit that doesn’t fit with its strategy. However, VMware is painting the Zimbra sale as something other than a move to shed assets…
"It was important to VMware to find a buyer that would be a good home for Zimbra’s people, customers and partners, and we believe Telligent is a great fit," said Erik Frieberg, vice president of product marketing for VMware’s End User Computing unit, in a Monday blog post. Frieberg said Zimbra has "experienced significant growth" since acquiring Zimbra in 2010 and has added more than 2,600 new customers, with a total user base of 85 million mailboxes…
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