Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Foundation had to improvise against the open source email software, Thunderbird, which now has an official name and has gone public. Thunderbird 3.0, Akah attend this year featured a more comprehensive email search and have integration Lightning calendar add-on. According to David Ascher, chief executive of Mozilla Messaging, revealed that the Alpha version of Thunderbird will also soon be released, about three months.Mozilla already famous and successful through its Firefox browser. Mozilla itself capable of competing with Microsoft Internet Explorer that has dominated the browser market. Now Mozilla is trying to apply the new formula to email software. Although many email software based web services, but the Thunderbird email software to open the opportunity for the emergence of other open source email software. Mozilla Messaging's priority to produce good software, and not imitate the style of Microsoft's Outlook software. Features calendar in Thunderbird to open the eyes of its competitors, Mozilla.
Mozilla Messaging is not just email, but the product of his Thunderbird can handle RSS feeds and newsgroups, even Ascher hopes that someday Thunderbird can be used for IM (Instant Messaging), mobile phone text messaging, and websites such as Facebook or Flickr that have systems email itself. IM software in the plan will be used is the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) used by Jabber and Google Talk, she added. Thunderbird 3 Features in addition to calendar, which users can create extension plug-ins in it, the spam filtering, and anti-phishing security, such as the one in Firefox 3.Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit group, has two branch profits, namely the Mozilla Corp. and Mozilla Messaging, which runs a web browser and email project. According to Ascher, Mozilla Messaging is held by three names, namely Ascher, Chris Beard, general manager of Mozilla Labs, and Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, an open source database company from Sun Microsystems
