Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released

linux pickle writes "Mozilla has released version 0.5 of Sunbird, its calendar app. New features in this release include numerous stability and usage improvements, Google Calendar synchronization support, and much improved printing support. Check out the release notes or grab a copy."

Re:I'm Sorry

[morgan_greywolf]

And nearly all of it will never replace Exchange because most of the packages are too difficult to install and configure, are based on technologies that don't scale very well (like PHP), or don't synchronize well or at all with Outlook.

Exchange Required

[imag0]

I would *love* to use it- but without Exchange calendaring support, it will be effectively a non starter for me and for thousands of other geeks out there who would love to use Thunderbird as their primary mail client at work.

Re:Exchange Required

[Anonymous Coward]

Screw Exchange. Exchange support is the last thing in the world that the Sunbird team should be working on. The whole point of this project should be to get people to *stop* using Exchange.

Then you better bring to the table the features that Exchange has that folks want. There is no good central calendar sharing server software in the OSS world that can do what Exchange can and integrates everything together with email. It simply doesn't exist, so folks won't migrate for that reason.

A good first step in moving would be to integrate your client so that it can use exchange until an OSS exchange server replacement is made. That's what the grandparent wanted, and it's a very reasonable request.

The vast masses aren't going to migrate away from MS based on principle. They want things that work. You aren't going to break the hegemony until you provide them with something that works as well. Sunbird isn't there yet. Not by a long shot.

Re:Exchange Required

[Sebastopol]

Screw Exchange.

Then Sunbird is doomed to a small niche.

Apparently you've missed the last 10 "revolutions".

Re:I'm Sorry

[DrXym]

I'm sorry to report that Thunderbird/Sunbird is nowhere near ready to replace Exchange. Depending on your needs, it might be a good fit though.

They would be far closer to replacing exchange if they supported Exchange. The Evolution Exchange plugin has been open sourced for ages now, porting it the cross platform Thunderbird and Sunbird would make the suite hugely more attractive to enterprises locked into MS Office for their client software.

Congratulations to the team

[addie macgruer]

I do love this programme, it ties together all the nonsense that I have / am forced to use so that I know what I'm doing...

* my own iBook, running iCal

* iPod sync'ed off of iCal

* Novell Groupwise at work, on both company Dell laptop and desktop

* Windows Mobile 2003 PIM thing as my work mobile phone

And what runs on everything? The open source stuff, running on many platforms and generating files to import for everything. No agenda as to 'doesn't import / export files for other platforms'. Cracking interface too, simplicity itself. Perfection is when there's nothing extraneous left to remove.

Keep up the good work!