In the latest breaking news about Stanford, Google, and Yahoo!, Stanford has opted to utilize Yahoo!’s Zimbra to power the university’s web-based email and calendar interface, according to a report released yesterday. Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in September 2007 for USD$350 million in cash.
This is a pretty low blow to Google because of the founders’ close ties to Stanford University.
But what is the reason stated for making the switch? “Zimbra was selected because the technology allows access to e-mail, calendar and contact lists from a single, unified web interface…“
As far as I know, Google offers its Google Apps product for each of these and they even made it really easy for companies (or organizations) to utilize it on their own domain.
I’m interested to see what kind of reaction Google will have to this bit of news.
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