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Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla?
andy brunetto asks: " We are investigating email clients to deploy as our "standard" at the college where I work. I'm trying to find out who is using Mozilla for their email. When I say "who" I mean organizationally, as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it. What organizations out there are rolling out Mozilla as their standard web and/or email client, and why? Yes, we are considering using Thunderbird, once it is final. Thanks!" Hopefully this will make companies realize that the Internet isn't comprised of just IE users.
A consistent complaint in this thread seems to be "Outlook isn't secure". This is silly. Besides a few bugs that had to do with scripting vulnerabilities (which are almost always traced back to IE component vulnerabilities - Outlook doesn't have its own HTML rendering engine), generally "Outlook security flaws" are viruses are activated by an ignorant user executing attachments. If the virus writers chose, they could just as easily read Mozilla's address book and email everyone in it to spread itself.
The fact that a useful tool is popular, and could potentially be used to propagate viruses if the user is a moron, does not make it insecure. Unless Mozilla encrypts its address book and does not provide any hooks to allow external applications to send mail, it is just as vulnerable as Outlook.
That being said, I personally dislike Outlook, but that doesn't justify unfounded accusations against it.
-j