Microsoft will buy Yammer for R10.2 billion

Derrick · Jun 26, 2012

Microsoft buys Yammer for R10.2 billion

Microsoft Corp agreed to buy online social network firm Yammer Inc for $1.2 billion in cash, which will allow the software company to offer a service like Facebook Inc’s to corporate customers...

unskinnybob · Jun 26, 2012

Why?!

FrankCastle · Jun 26, 2012

Too much money to throw around.

Smiley_lauf · Jun 26, 2012

proly dumping SharePoint monolith good-for-nuthing piece of bloatware for this.

kooldude · Jun 26, 2012

maybe they want to build yammer on sharepoint.

unskinnybob · Jun 26, 2012

Smiley_lauf said:
proly dumping SharePoint monolith good-for-nuthing piece of bloatware for this.

SharePoint is a fantastic product. It's probably one of the fastest growing software industries in South Africa.

Azbubu · Jun 26, 2012

Jammer tog.

Mouse · Jun 26, 2012

unskinnybob said:
SharePoint is a fantastic product. It's probably one of the fastest growing software industries in South Africa.

fast_growing == good_sales;
good_sales != good_product;

unskinnybob · Jun 26, 2012

Mouse said:
fast_growing == good_sales;
good_sales != good_product;

The product is over 10 years old. If a ****ty product continues to sell well after 10 years, good for the sales people. I use SharePoint in my environment and it's awesome.

Fudzy · Jun 26, 2012

I think the value of a Sharepoint site completely relies on who is running it and what it's doing.

I always found it interesting how Yammer never got sued by Facebook. It's like they took FB's business model and assigned it to one e-mail group.

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