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Mozilla launches new e-mail initiative based on Thunderbird
We first heard that Mozilla might be ready to spin off Thunderbird as a separate corporation back in July. At the time, all we knew is that Mozilla wanted to focus on Firefox and allow Thunderbird to shed its overlooked stepsister status and get the attention it deserved.Well, it turns out that Mozilla has pretty big plans for the little e-mail client. The goal is pretty much to make Thunderbird an Outlook killer much the same way Firefox has become something of an Internet Explorer killer.
Mozilla has announced that ActiveState CTO David Ascher will head up the new company. The new organization will be a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation and will receive $3 million in seed funding from Mozilla to get started.
The new company will continue to support Thunderbird, but will also continue to build out its product and encourage a "robust developer ecosystem" to encourage open source involvement in the project. What would be most interesting is if Mozilla released a Thunderbird server that could compete with Microsoft's Exchange Server head-on.
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Subscribe to commentsJerry JavornickySep 18th 2007 1:33PM
Thunderbird has always been a great piece of software, but it seems to be a long path from Outlook Express killer to Outlook killer without any reasonably working Calendar interface and advanced GroupWare. Look at Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com) or eM Client (http://www.emclient.com) those are real Outlook Killers.
hazardSep 18th 2007 11:12PM
unlike web browsers, email applications are often tightly integrated into an organisations procedures and process and consequently can't be easily replaced.
jsSep 20th 2007 1:04AM
"it seems to be a long path from Outlook Express killer to Outlook killer without any reasonably working Calendar interface"
Thunderbid has an integrated calendar called Lightning. Download it from Mozilla.
lynneOct 24th 2007 5:04PM
Hello!