If Mozilla can get together a product that is as effective as outlook and has the ability to sync with Plaxo, LinkedIn, and my Palm Treo Smartphone, I will completely migrate my 20 years worth of Business Data, 2500+ contacts, etc. to Thunderbird 3 when it is complete and out of Beta! Microsoft, this will essentially severe our ties forever!
Mozilla Messaging Starts Up Operations
New open source organization kicks off development of Thunderbird 3
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – February 19, 2008 – Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, today announced that it has begun operations.
The initial focus for Mozilla Messaging is the development of Thunderbird 3, which will deliver significant improvements, notably integrated calendaring, better search and enhancements to the overall user experience. Thunderbird is a free, open source email application that is used by millions of people around the world and is built using the same open source development model as the award-winning Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
Mozilla Messaging has staffed a small product development team who will work as part of a community of contributors from around the world.
“We’re excited to renew the focus of our open source community on the future of Thunderbird,” said David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging. “Every one of us is committed to building a great email product that people will love to use and that serves as the foundation for choice in a critical area of Internet software.”
Mozilla Messaging is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. The board of directors consists of David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging; Christopher Beard, VP and General Manager, Mozilla Labs; and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.
“Thunderbird email is a vital part of the Mozilla project which brings freedom to hundreds of millions of internet users worldwide,” said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. “By joining the board of Mozilla Messaging, I hope to help the world communicate better.”
For more information, please see the FAQ and the following blog post from David Ascher:
- FAQ: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-02-19-faq.html
- David Ascher’s blog post: http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/02/19/mozilla-messaging/
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