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Thursday, October 12, 2006; 03:51 AM
QUALCOMM
Incorporated and Mozilla Foundation announced that future versions of the Eudora email
program will be based upon the same
technology platform as Mozilla's Thunderbird. Eudora will be free and open source, while
retaining Eudora’s rich feature set and productivity
enhancements.
QUALCOMM also announced that it has released the final
commercial versions of the current Eudora products for Windows and Mac
operating systems. The open source version of Eudora is targeted to
release during the first half of calendar year 2007. Once the open
source version of Eudora is released, QUALCOMM will cease to sell
Eudora commercially. In the interim, QUALCOMM will continue commercial
sales, at a reduced price of $19.95 and with a six-month period of
technical support. Existing technical support commitments will be
honored in their entirety.
“I’m excited for Eudora to be returning to the open source
community,” said Steve Dorner, vice president of technology for
QUALCOMM’s Eudora Group. “Using the Mozilla Thunderbird technology
platform as a basis for future versions of Eudora will provide some key
infrastructure that the existing versions lacked, such as a
cross-platform code base and a world-class display engine. Making it
open source will bring more developers to bear on Eudora than ever
before.”
“We’re pleased to welcome Eudora and its millions of users
to the world of open source,” said Frank Hecker, executive director of
the Mozilla Foundation. “This effort should further enrich the
Thunderbird technology platform and provide users of both products with
an even richer email experience.”
More information about the open source version of Eudora and
details for existing customers of the classic version of Eudora can be
found at www.eudora.com/faq.
More information on all the new features of the classic version of Eudora 7.1 and 6.2.4 can be found at www.eudora.com/windows and www.eudora.com/mac.
 The Eudora email program.
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