Comments on: Confirmation of Microsoft’s intent to buy Xobni http://www.sgi.nu/diary/2008/04/21/confirmation-of-microsofts-intent-to-buy-xobni/ The musings of a research software engineer ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Lampert http://www.sgi.nu/diary/2008/04/21/confirmation-of-microsofts-intent-to-buy-xobni/comment-page-1/#comment-202990 Andrew Lampert Thu, 01 May 2008 02:06:49 +0000 http://www.sgi.nu/diary/?p=142#comment-202990 According to Erick Schonfeld's "source close to the negotiations", Xobni is walking away from the proposed Microsoft acquisition due to uncertainty about the future of Xobni within MS. <blockquote cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/xobni-walks-away-from-a-microsoft-deal/"> ... the deeper that Xobni got into the discussions, the less comfortable it felt about its eventual fate inside the Microsoft machine. The fear was that Xobni would end up nothing more than a feature of Outlook. Microsoft wanted the entire team to move up to Redmond, and was vague in its answers about what it had planned for that team, or the product. In the end, the body language just wasn’t there. </blockquote> See http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/xobni-walks-away-from-a-microsoft-deal/ for more comments and speculation. According to Erick Schonfeld’s “source close to the negotiations”, Xobni is walking away from the proposed Microsoft acquisition due to uncertainty about the future of Xobni within MS.

… the deeper that Xobni got into the discussions, the less comfortable it felt about its eventual fate inside the Microsoft machine. The fear was that Xobni would end up nothing more than a feature of Outlook. Microsoft wanted the entire team to move up to Redmond, and was vague in its answers about what it had planned for that team, or the product. In the end, the body language just wasn’t there.

See http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/xobni-walks-away-from-a-microsoft-deal/ for more comments and speculation.

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