Yahoo Mail Turns 10

The Y!'s online mail service turns ten years old today.

Ah, it seems like yesterday when I was the ripe age of 7, giddy with excitement with my new e-mail address. It was a Juno account, and e-mail was all we had. No pricey internet for my family! We didn't get full-blown e-mail until a couple of years later.

Anyway, here's a birthday cake for good ol' Yahoo!

Yahoo Writes $350 Million Check for Zimbra

Zimbra, an online/offline e-mail and collaboration service, has been acquired by Yahoo today for $350 million in cash. This catapults Yahoo into online office ring along with Google. Who will prevail? Who knows. I think we're headed for an office suite fight of cola war proportions.

I haven't looked at Zimbra much, except for blog postings here and there, but on closer inspection, it appears to be a pretty powerful corporate collaboration tool. It's equipped with key business e-mail features, such as creating, approving, or denying purchase orders from within the e-mail client. It looks good, too.

A good grab for Yahoo. A good grab, indeed.