Future Eudora Based on Thunderbird

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @03:45AM from the open-source-is-good dept.

theefer writes "Qualcomm announced that future versions of Eudora will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program. Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. Qualcomm and Mozilla will each participate in, and continue to foster development communities based around the open source Mozilla project, with a view to enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of both Eudora and Thunderbird. [...] The open source version of Eudora is targeted to release during the first half of calendar year 2007. Once the open source version of Eudora is released, Qualcomm will cease to sell Eudora commercially."

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Re:An odd thing in Qualcomm's portfolio by telchine · 2006-10-11 04:14 · Score: 1, Troll

>What I meant to type was "Outlook / Outlook Express".

Well, you're an idiot then. Outlook Express is a completely different program to Outlook. They don't share a common codebase, they're programmed by different developers. Other than the name, they have nothing at all in common.

>I've used Outlook (full) for the last 6 years. The UI *has not* changed significantly over that time. Fact.

How many times have you upgraded in that time? The UI has changed considerably from Outlook 2000 to Outlook XP.