Microsoft to Buy Yahoo ?
Lots of rumours about Yahoo wanting to dump a significant part of it's personnel have been overwhelmed by the new news that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo.
Let's stand still for 5 seconds to think about that impact :
First of all.. they are buying a lot of advertising and content , a field where they were currently losing market share. But they are buying more.
They are buying into the mindset of startups, Flickr, Upcoming, and others.. something they have long lost ..
Bort just made an interesting point in realising that in with Microsoft buying Yahoo, that would also include buying Zimbra, and lots of other open source technology. What about openID, will they make their own MS-OpenID ?
Will they make the same mistake they made when buying Hotmail ?
Will yahoo still need to let people go or will they leave themselves because of this ?
Lots of questions .. time will tell.
Comments
#1 Ploum : What mistake ?
"Will they make the same mistake they made when buying Hotmail ? "
What mistake ? I think that hotmail is the most successful webmail service (or at least one of them). It contains a huge quantity of advertisement and the interface development cost must be nearly zero.
So it seems a huge success in term of money.