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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. MozillaZine is running a story, too by R.Mo_Robert · · Score: 5, Informative

    MozillaZine is running a story, too, and it's probably a little more truthful...

    ZDNet Tries to Get to the Bottom of the Oracle-Mozilla Relationship

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  2. Re:Dear god no... by R.Mo_Robert · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please don't make Thunderbird any more bloated than it alread is. Why must a calendar be integrated with e-mail anyways?

    Had you read the Mozilla Lightning link, you would have seen that this is a "Thunderbird extension for tightly-integrated calendar functionality." A Thunderbird extension. (That said, I could see this eventually being an optional component included with the installer so that it's more Outlook-like and doesn't require users to go somewhere to download it, assuming they even know about it in the first place.)

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  3. Exchange Killer? by tzanger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oracle already bought out Steltor's CorporateTime, which was an Exchange Killer, and then buried it in proprietary bullshit. I've since moved over to Exchange4Linux, which, barring the poor name, I feel really is an Exchange Killer.

    Basically the entire thing runs inside of Postfix and PostgreSQL. It's written in Python, and the server software is 100% open source. The Outlook Connector is not (it too is written in Python). So far it's been working great (huge datastore, calendaring, delegation, it all works). Basically N-H went about it differently than all the others: instead of making Outlook wrap around open services, they made the open services conform to Microsoft's bastardized MAPI. I have to say this has owrked better than anything else I've found.