Seeing as this has received quite a lot of press attention, I thought I might add my own take.
Mozilla’s MailCo offshoot was officially launched by David Ascher on the 19th of February and will focus on among other things; E-mail, IRC, chat, SMS, calendaring, RSS and all other aspects of Internet communications including but not limited to VoIP (as the name would imply). David Ascher will report only to the Mozilla Messaging Boards of Directors which include David Ascher CEO, Chris Beard and Martin Mickos current head of MySQL AB.
It will certainly be interesting to see what the outcome of this offshoot will be. Mozilla did a similar thing back in 2005 when they created the Mozilla Corporation to be dedicated to all things Firefox (as well as support the Mozilla Project in general with financing).
Currently, – Mozilla Messaging, Inc. to give it it’s proper name – is working away on Thunderbird 3.0 which will see calendaring functionality introduced into it. It will also integration of the Lightening project with the collaboration of the Mozilla Calendar team.
All other questions are addresses in their FAQ here and the official URL is:
17/02/2009 at 20:46
Thanks mucx