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Heh, I remember when Oracle bought Sun too. Suddenly the team working on Linux accessibility (namely the Orca project) vanished.

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I was actually surprised Oracle didn't outright kill MySQL, OpenOffice, and a bunch of other FOSS projects they/we inherited. They/we even pivoted internally to using Jabber for IMs (with Pidgin!!), because one of those projects was some sort of integrated calendaring/Jabber suite and it was mandated as standard. I could even use Thunderbird rather than Outlook, and any Linux I wanted.

Obviously all the major projects were eventually mismanaged.

yeah the IM was not that great. Sending images in IM was not working correctly. Had to create rooms for group messages etc. Zimbra email had only 5 to 10 GB storage.

They switched to using office 365 for mail and slack for IM's 5 years ago. The user experience with office 365 and slack was far better.

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