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

Re:It's not a worthy opponent

[Anonymous Coward]

Illustrator 8 and Illustrator 10. Do a search and replace for text which is on a locked layer. Locks the machine up every. Single. Time.

An IDEA for GNU or other OSS orgs

[beforewisdom]

The only reason I am not using sunbird, or another OSS Personal organization tool is that yahoo doesn't support iCal ( I have written to them suggesting it:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedbac k).

Even though I like downloading my email I use yahoo because the convenience of getting to my information anywhere is compelling.

I even pay ( gladly ) for pop access

I would love to use the sunbird client and the other OSS PIM tools in combination with yahoo so that I could download ( and update ) my PIM stuff anywhere.

Even more, I would love to pay GNU or some other OSS org for this rather then paying yahoo.

If GNU or another OSS org implemented this kind of yahoo-like service ( using all OS software ) it would kill 4 birds with one Free(dom) software stone.

1. I get the services I want

2. GNU gets money, which it always needs

3. GNU employs programmers to build an maintain
GNUYahoo ( GNUwho ? ) -- a worthy thing these
days in itself

4. Free(dom) & OS software gets showcased and put
into use.

Almost Geeks have some sort of webmail account and would love to support GNU or another OSS org rather then ________, especially if they implement featurs geeks want like better spam filtering.

If these sites were made user friendly GNU would get a bonus____ giving something to ordinary people that they would like____ which would make GNU, as well as Free(dom) software relevant to their lives.

GNU and OSS especially needs this if they want to fight and win political battles.

Just a thought

don't forget

[anomaly]

That an important part of the licensing cost for Exchange is the Client Access License (CAL) - this means regardless of what you pay for the code that runs on your desktop, you still need to pay Microsoft a non-trivial amount of cash for the privilege.

The fix is to provide a seamless migration to a non-exchange server with a calendar-sharing mechanism.

Now that I think of it, when MS was looking to de-throne NetWare, they created a utility that allowed Windows users to see NetWare shares through a single login account on the NetWare box.

This meant that customers could 'upgrade' to Windows and not need to but any more client licenses for Novell.

I wonder if we should find a way to enable calendar browsing via some sort of mechanism that exploits only a single CAL so that uses of the free server side could see Outlook/Exhange calendars without paying CALs for all of the free server users.

Just like the Microsoft mechanism, this needs to be seamless and transparent - to make migration to free software easy and painless.