Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook

MS IE Bug Finder writes "Although Microsoft is dismissing Mozilla Lightning, the article indicates the combination of Thunderbird (mail) with Sunbird (calendaring) should be a worthy opponent against Outlook by the middle of the new year." Reader EvilStein adds a link to the Lightning Q&A.

Comments

They missed the boat

[Anonymous Coward]

They should've called the project SHAZAM!

Real world vs. fanboy fantasies

[Mike Bourna]

While it's nice of Microsoft to show responsibility and acknowledge lesser alternatives occasionally, these OSS (open sores solutions) have always failed and will always fail miserably when competing with CSS (closed sores solutions). It lies inherently in the concept. Just look at the failure of LinuxOS.

I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.

I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:

Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:

• Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
  
• Training costs were 32.3% better.
  

They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:

• $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
  
• $1.79 per peak request per second.
  

Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:

• 28.2% less for large enterprises.
  
• 25.0% less for medium organizations.
  

A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:

• Is nearly three hours faster.
  
• Requires 77% fewer steps.
  

Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:

• Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
  
• Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.
  

These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.

Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???

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Re:It's not a worthy opponent

[Jedi Alec]

kidding, right?

Re:Firebird : Firefox = Lightning : ??

[SnarfQuest]

It will mellow out to moonshine.

Re:MS shoud be worried

[mrchaotica]

No, no, no! Microsoft shouldn't worry until it's too late. Let them ignore us while we catch up!

To Microsoft:

(Waves hands) This is not the competitor you're looking for....

Re:It's not a worthy opponent

[DevolvingSpud]

It usually takes two apps - one of them just always happens to be explorer.exe...