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User talk:Eddyn:Report for Thunderbird (view source)
Revision as of 00:57, 6 August 2007
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The enterprise market as a possible target by becoming a strong competitor of Microsoft Outlook is viewed as one of the ultimate goals of Thunderbird. Improved support of additional communication protocols (IM) and sharing/synchronization of data (calendar views, tasks, address books and more) are viewed as essential in order to accomplish this goal. Closer cooperation with software vendors of group ware applications and servers, including better support for Microsoft Exchange server are suggested. Marketing efforts (campaign), bundling with Firefox, Easy Account Setup for ISPs were also suggested for faster adoption. | The enterprise market as a possible target by becoming a strong competitor of Microsoft Outlook is viewed as one of the ultimate goals of Thunderbird. Improved support of additional communication protocols (IM) and sharing/synchronization of data (calendar views, tasks, address books and more) are viewed as essential in order to accomplish this goal. Closer cooperation with software vendors of group ware applications and servers, including better support for Microsoft Exchange server are suggested. Marketing efforts (campaign), bundling with Firefox, Easy Account Setup for ISPs were also suggested for faster adoption. | ||
Reduced focus and involvement in Thunderbird by MoCo might prove to be counterproductive, which might hurt the image and adoption of all products. It was suggested that expectations were high and a "breakthrough" close what | Reduced focus and involvement in Thunderbird by MoCo might prove to be counterproductive, which might hurt the image and adoption of all products. It was suggested that expectations were high and a "breakthrough" close what usability and adoption concerns, specially in the advancing of the Sunbird/Lightning project. Rapid organizational changes might send out the wrong signals to users and volunteers, but also to the corporate world which might be the ultimate target for mail desktop applications and a source of revenue. | ||
Improvement of the code base and documentation are viewed as vital in order to gain greater support and involvement by volunteers. Shifting of organizational and other tasks to different persons than the current core developers was suggested. Arrangements by the community of bounties, sponsored by interested parties (i.e. server and group ware software vendors, corporations) might accelerate development, fixing of bugs and feature requests. Better tools (aka Firefox user extension library) for Thunderbird might accelerate third party development of extensions. | Improvement of the code base and documentation are viewed as vital in order to gain greater support and involvement by volunteers. Shifting of organizational and other tasks to different persons than the current core developers was suggested. Arrangements by the community of bounties, sponsored by interested parties (i.e. server and group ware software vendors, corporations) might accelerate development, fixing of bugs and feature requests. Better tools (aka Firefox user extension library) for Thunderbird might accelerate third party development of extensions. | ||