Mozilla to (nearly) cease Thunderbird development

grandgroove

This may be of use to those of you who maintain and support Thunderbird in your enterprise. The project appears to be open to community development, though.

http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-scraps-thunderbird-development-email-client-not-a-priority-anymore-7000000469/

and from the mouth of the horse:

http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/

I hate to see this happen. Thunderbird was a great alternative mail/news client in Windows. Looks like they'll be doing ESR support like they do with "old" Firefox builds.

Since many manage Thunderbird in Patch Manager, I thought this would be of interest.

Thanks!

Jay

antwesor

Wow, thanks for letting us know. We moved to all microsoft products years ago, so that is really not an issue for our environment. I would be sorry to see Thunderbird go as well. The clients for emails seem to be steadily shrinking due to more cloud based applications it seems. FWIW.