Yahoo! wanted to drop it's workforce without a layoff. This was the cheapest and easiest way to do it. Plain and simple.

However, Jabber servers can communicate amongst themselves, so it doesn't really matter.

Ha! If that box ran windows I would not date her! :)

we are we are we are we are we are the engineers!
we can we can we can we can code C# with our peers!
drink rum drink rum drink rum drink rum and come along with us!
for we change policies for the companies that allocate funds to us!

(next step: The Ridgid Tool replaced by The Flaccid Software as department mascot)

Uh huh... and soon they'll be printing their own eBay currency...

this thing is gonna melt and its ugly