Mozilla Launches New Email and Communications Organization, Similar to Firefox

Published: September 18, 2007, 12:00 am

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Today Mozilla is launching a new organization to develop Internet mail and communications software. It will use the open source email desktop client Thunderbird as a base - the product, code and brand. Technically this will be a Mozilla Foundation subsidiary - and it is very similar to Mozilla's Firefox effort. Just as Firefox aims to give choice in the browser space, this new initiative will try and advance email and communications technology. As with Firefox, the aim is to create a robust developer ecosystem to encourage open source development and community innovation. Mozilla will provide US$3 million seed funding to establish this new company. The new organization will be led by Dr. David Ascher, currently CTO and VP Engineering of ActiveState, who joins Mozilla to carry out this job. Ascher has a lot of experience in the Mozilla community, going back to 2000. He was formally the lead of Komodo, a Mozilla-based integrated development environment (IDE), and is a director

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