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What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
Posted Feb 6, 2008 15:13 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw) by zotz
Parent article: What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
Would not Yahoo be prevented from giving away or spinning off its assets while Microsoft is bidding on it? It's an unsolicited bid, but isn't it still a bid? It's not like I can put a computer on eBay and start taking away its parts is I don't like the highest bidder.
I wish Yahoo could do something about Zimbra, but I'm afraid it may be too late.
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What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
Posted Feb 6, 2008 18:08 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
I guess they'd just have to change their bid. Poor them. ;-) If there's no contract between them, there's no grounds for any objection from an unsolicited bidder.
What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
Posted Feb 6, 2008 19:29 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
Actually, Yahoo is a publicly traded company, which may put some limitations on them. If not - fine, I just wanted to make sure.
What Will Happen to Zimbra? (Groklaw)
Posted Feb 7, 2008 2:01 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link]
Logically if one business could restrict a competitor from making certain business moves (like getting rid of subsidiaries) by floating a hostile takeover bid, wouldn't such bids be flying around all the time?