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Oracle and Mozilla Foundation Work Quietly Together

Posted by Zonk on from the oracle-and-mozz-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

KenDaMan writes "CNet is running a story about the ties between Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation. Oracle hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning. This project, which aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its e-mail application, Thunderbird, is believed to be key to cracking the market dominance of Microsoft Outlook. Is Oracle getting set make an Open Source offering?"

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  1. Re:Dear god no... by hoxford · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because it's great to get an invitation via email, which you can add to your calendar with one click, rather than re-entering the info?

    Right, just like it gets so damned tiresome to have to retype all those URLs when people send you links to web sites. Or when you have to go manually FTP jpegs and bring up the image viewer when they email you photos, or...

    Because no one has built email clients that understand URIs and invoke external handlers to do things like that. No, of course not. The only way is to tightly integrate the email and calendar functionality. Yessiree.

    Because I leave my email program running all the time, and I'd rather not have to leave another calendar program running as well?

    Yup. And this is why I like my email, browser, wordprocessor, IDE, desktop background, MP3 player, and coffee maker all integrated into the same giant, monolithic package. When I fire up my VT220 I don't want to have all kinds of different apps competing for screen real-estate.

    Are you people high?