Microsoft Buys Yammer For $1.2 Billion

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @01:09AM from the pretty-soon-you're-talking-real-money dept.

itwbennett writes "Confirming the rumor that emerged earlier this month, Microsoft has bought enterprise social networking software maker Yammer for $1.2 billion. Yammer will become part of Microsoft's Office Division." If you're not familiar with Yammer, it's essentially a messaging system that gives more control to administrators than does using an outside company's service, like AOL's AIM. "Enterprise social networking software," as Wikipedia explains it, means that Yammer "is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example of enterprise social software. ... Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain, so only those with appropriate email addresses may join their respective networks."

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Re:The client by james_van · 2012-06-26 01:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*dons flameproof suit and blast shield*
And what exactly is wrong with AIR?
Here are the answers I expect to get from the /. crowd:
-It's made by Adobe
-It's not C (or a C derivative, offshoot, distant cousin)
-Isn't that kinda like Flash? Flash is bad cause Steve said so!
-It's interpreted code bundled with a runtime and we don't like that kind here
-It's not my preferred language/runtime/environment/etc therefore it must be bad