Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Its Own Company

[microbee]

The Mozilla Foundation has set up a new Mozilla Messaging Inc subsidiary to develop Thunderbird 3, the next generation of the previously resource-starved free open source e-mail application, a sister application of the successful Mozilla Firefox web browser. The operation has its own CEO, David Ascher of ActiveState, who thinks 'e-mail is broken,' its own board including MySQL CEO Marten Mickos - soon to be working for Sun - Ascher and Mozilla Messaging general manager Christopher Beard, its own core engineering team and start-up funds of around $3 million.

Read Complete Article

Source: www.sys-con.com