[NEWS] Eudora Goes Open Source, Joins Mozilla Family

[David Lloyd]

Janet,

> Does this mean an increased team working on email backend to
> develop an exchange alternative?

By an "Exchange" backend, though, what do you actually mean? Eudora is a 
mail client and really has little to do with the implementation of 
backend services...

I've never quite gotten Exchange servers apart from noting that:

  - they seem a tad complex to administer
  - they don't seem to be terribly efficient MTAs
    [this could be because I've only seen poorly deployed installations]
  - they seem to provide some form of collaboration server with Outlook
    as the collobaration client

I think what you're asking is, will this move create a server which 
might replace Exchange's collboration functionality/use cases...at least 
that's one reading.

There's no logical reason it would.

If what you mean is: will the Open Source Eudora connect with Exchange 
servers as seemlessly as is possible, then I don't know. Taking Qualcomm 
at its word - and assuming that the closed source Eudora does [I don't 
kno :P] - then the answer might be 'yes'.

However, there's too many "ifs" and "assumptions" in my last paragraph 
for me to feel confident about what I'm saying though.

DSL