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Mozilla Sunbird's First Official Release

jcraveiro writes "MozillaZine announced yesterday that Sunbird, Mozilla's standalone cross-platform calendar project, has reached its first official relase: version 0.2, for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X." This is good news for all of us waiting for decent free calendaring software.

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  1. Waiting, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is good news for all of us waiting for decent free calendaring software. Are you going to download Sunbird and put a reminder in it to "continue waiting for decent free calendaring software"? ;-D

  2. Re:The System Tray by don'tyellatme · · Score: 5, Informative

    wow. that's not a problem with any mozilla software. that's what extensions are for. http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/

  3. Good job by Snap+E+Tom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Way to be oblivious to the big picture, Slashdotters!!!

    The sooner that Exchange is emulated in OSS, the sooner there will be no reason to run Microsoft products on the backend for small and medium sized offices.

    * IIS? Gone with Apache.
    * File/Print? Gone with Samba.
    * Email? Not so fast. We like the groupware functionality of Exchange.

    And of course, consultants who don't know any better see that there's no OSS to fulfil the groupware need, and therefore, there's no reason to learn/pitch Apache/Samba. Why bother with those when you can have the "nice integration" of MS products? Once Sunbird/OpenGroupware, et al reaches the ability of invitations, seeing busy/free on other user's calendars, and inviting resources, then Redmond will run real scared.

    Good job, Sunbird. You're the missing link and you're looking good.

  4. Release date.... by ribo-bailey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tuesday, February 4th, 2005:

    You'd think a site for a calendar app would be able to get it's own release date correct...

    otherwise, it's a neat app

  5. Re:Coming Soon: Mozilla, The OS by zemoo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Already been done!
    OEone HomeBase.
    Check out this screenshot:
    http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/bigbBdSgP.jpg

    Although it's hard to find info about it, the product integrated OpenOffice into a Desktop written entirely in XUL.