NetRyder
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Source: mozillaZineSimon Paquet writes: "Mozilla developer Mike Shaver has announced the Lightning project. Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. See the corresponding page on wiki.mozilla.org for more information.
"The first Lightning release is planned for the middle of 2005. Lightning is a different project as the current calendar extension for Thunderbird and it is not planned to replace the current extension with Lightning. While the current extension only aims for a loose integration with Thunderbird, Lightning aims to integrate into the main Thunderbird UI and user interaction model as tightly as possible.
"With Lightning, Mozilla Thunderbird will have a set of user features that is much more competitive with Outlook, especially in enterprise usage."
While Lightning is separate to Mozilla Calendar and Sunbird, the three projects will share large amounts of code.
Are we finally going to see some real competition for Outlook?