photo sharing site, and del.icio.us, for sharing Web site tags. Yahoo also has Pipes, a tool to aggregate and manipulate mashup content, and Mash, a way to connect a user's profile with other people. In addition, Yahoo owns Zimbra, a next generation collaboration suite that has some eye-popping AJAX-based technology. "Behind the firewall, Microsoft may look at del.icio.us because there is no tagging capability in SharePoint right now. And on the Zimbra side, the architecture and user experience is the most modernized collaboration application out there right now. The Exchange team would like to talk to the Zimbra team," Gotta says. "The user experience around Zimbra is so good that the Office and SharePoint teams would benefit from such insight."
What about enterprise search tools?
Microsoft introduced a whole new lineup of enterprise search tools late last year and early this year bought Fast Search And Transfer. Yahoo has time-tested search technology that likely will yield more than a few nuggets to support future R&D on enterprise search, but Microsoft's battle with Google in this market is nowhere near the lopsided contest it is on the consumer and online advertising side.
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