The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title.
The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla"s calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird e-mail application. That integration is aimed right at the heart of Microsoft"s widely used Outlook software.
"I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named. "There"s a lot of user dissatisfaction out there, and it will be interesting to see what the market looks like once there"s a strong open-source alternative." After years of delays and miscues, Mozilla has made some market inroads this year with its Firefox Web browser.