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More On Kapor's Attempt To Best Outlook

Posted by timothy on from the time-is-ripe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a story on the Boston Globe's Digital MASS section about Mitch Kapor , the guy who created Lotus 1-2-3. He will reportedly spend about $5 mil to create something competing with MS Outlook. More of the story here." We mentioned this a few months ago as well, and it sounds like any software release is still some time off.

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  1. In other news... by doubleyewdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem Forever is looking better than ever. No, really. It's going to rock! This will be the ultimate computer game. Really. It's gonna be great. I'll see you all in line at Best Buy!

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    you can take the road that takes you to the stars...
  2. BuzzWord Bingo by TTL0 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "We believe what Mitch is doing may catalyze significant for-profit opportunities," Breyer said.

    nice job Breyer, spoken like a true master.

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    Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold
  3. Re:Prototypes by CerebusUS · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not gonna succeed if they keep ripping off Microsoft's Exchange Icon :-)

    example

  4. Re:Best of luck to him by Zemran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Evolution does it for Linux but it cannot handle virii as well as Outlook.

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    I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
  5. And the award goes to... by jeremyds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mitch Kapor for the best vaporware of 2002!

  6. Re:IMHO by mark_lybarger · · Score: 3, Funny

    yes, it integrates a calendar too! isn't that all dependant on the email server being used in the organization? it lets us invite other people to meetings and know if they'll be available. 8 years ago we had to have these "planners" where we wrote our appointments into. everyone would sit around the table at the meeting to decide a good time for the weekly meetings to occur. once everyone figured a good time, it was put into the planner. now at the meetings everyone pulls out their iLittlePalmToy and fumbles around for 4-5 minutes with it trying to figure out where all that scheduling stuff is and determine weather it's been synched in a while... then finally ends up saying "i'll get back to you on a good time, this thing isn't working quite right today".

    we've come a long way baby.