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Mozilla's Sunbird Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the right-on-schedule dept.

comforteagle writes "Mozilla Sunbird is the latest stand-alone application from the Mozilla foundation that follows in the footsteps of now revered browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird. OSDir reviews their first public release, version 0.2. Screenshots included."

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  1. FP by sm8000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "as of the moment Sunbird does not integrate with Thunderbird or Firefox." Sometimes this isn't always a bad thing, you know?

  2. Mozilla tries the unintegrated method. by Penguinoflight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems that if Mozilla were at this stage in its development, say 5 years ago, they would probably be converging into one application. Perhaps Mozilla has decided to learn from the mistakes of Windows/IE integration. With the recent wired article where a Microsoft security head admitting his use of Firefox, I would say this move to less integration is definatly a smart one.

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    1. Re:Mozilla tries the unintegrated method. by soyuz_2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      where a Microsoft security head admitting his use of Firefox

      Anyone making software would be nuts not to try the competitors product. I mean, surely Audi engineers try BMW's to see what they have to compete against, right?

    2. Re:Mozilla tries the unintegrated method. by mantera · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "With the recent wired article where a Microsoft security head admitting his use of Firefox"... I read his interview and it did not indicate that he was using it in any more capacity than testing it. He definitely did not say he was using it for browsing or relying on it. In fact, he said it too had security issues. So, although I'm typing this on firefox right now, let's not get excessively enthausiastic. Microsoft had always had a practice of seeing what's out there, competitors and already implemented solutions, that him having firefox on his computer means very little. He probably has every other browser out there too.

    3. Re:Mozilla tries the unintegrated method. by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Microsoft had always had a practice of seeing what's out there,

      Exactly right!

      In fact, that was one serious problem I noticed with Apple when I worked there. Nobody believed they had any competition, and nobody ran competitors products. Folks there really beleived, for example, that if you tried to plug a digital camera into a Windows XP machine you'd have to spend hours downloading drivers and dealing with BSOD.

      It's SMART to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed in Microsoft if they didn't keep abreast of the competitors.

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  3. Innovation by Frankie70 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Screenshots

    Looks identical to Outlook's Calendar, even menu option names etc.

    OSS seems to be totally following the MS way, including very little innovation.

  4. Re:Wait.... by FuzzzyLogik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    good grief man... look at the version number on that.. 0.2 there's plenty of time for them to innovate, let them get the basics done first then watch as the new useful features roll out... sit back and chill.. if you have such a problem why not go help the development... it's really not THAT hard to write some javascript and such for all that.. i guess if you don't program it might be kind of hard but it's fairly easy to pickup if you tried... the thing i'm trying to say though is to provide your input, if it's not what you want, then why not go suggest features or what have you? bitching isn't going to help, you need to provide constructive criticism and possible advancements...

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  5. Re:Correction -- Version 0.2 by ScottGant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The original submitter of the news also should of said what the fricken thing was...instead of just providing a link. Just say what it is in the piece so people that are interested in what it is can go there, those that don't need/care don't have to follow the link...and contribute to the slashdotting effect...

    Journalism 101

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  6. Serving is the key by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its nice to see more standards compliant calendar browsers out there, but whats key is that server side solutions (Yahoo Calendar) adopt open standards so we can share calendar data, which to me is the entire point. To me this type of application is mostly about advertising when I am and am not available...so sharing with other calendaring clients is crucial.

  7. Palm Pilot. by maeka · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wake me up when it can sync with my Palm.

  8. What type of journalism is this... by danheskett · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...I know this might be undue but..

    Not everyone knows what Sunbird is. I know from the article teaser above that it's from Mozilla, and it's like Firefox. So it's a browser, like firefox? Or an e-mal client like Thunderbird?

    In the future, you may get better response by telling us exactly what it is being reviewed.

  9. Come on! by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    #1 It is 0.2, very early in development, don't expect much until it gets closer to 1.0, pluuueesseee!

    #2 Of course it looks like Outlook Calendar, until MS Sues and then it will look like something else.

    #3 No Synch, yet, see #1.

    #4 It is a basic calendar app, no frills, see #1.

    #5 Some day, the Mozilla development teams, will find a way to Integrate Thunderbird, Firefox, and Sunbird into something more productive. Just not today.

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