VMware Acquisition of Zimbra

VMware specializes in hardware emulation.. So at the other end of the ISO layer, they purchase a popular, high-end Web2 cloud app; What can this mean?

Will they now provide and support a VM that hosts an email front-end that talks to any standard mail back-end?

Does this mean the Zimbra face of web-mail will soon be forced upon us all (taken as defacto by myriads of web hosts already using VMware?)

Will this sour relations in the new (MS-Yahoo) AKA – Micro-hoo camp?