First, there was Firefox; then came Thunderbird; now there is Sunbird. Mozilla has introduced the third piece of their open source software project...at least the first beta version of it.
Sunbird is standalone calendar application, for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The eventual goal of Sunbird is to integrate it into Mozilla's e-mail software,Thunderbird making that program very similar to Microsoft's Outlook. The project, code-named Lightning, is scheduled for its first general release in the middle of 2005, according to the Mozilla Web site.
However, according to some postings on the MozillaZine news site, some consumers don't believe that Sunbird is a viable alternative to Outlook just yet. Mozilla admits this, but says wait for the final product before judgment is made. But of course, the price point is going to be much better than Outlook since Outlook is only included in the entire Microsoft Office Suite. The Mozilla programs are free.
Sunbird 0.2 offers various features, including the ability to create scheduled events and to see an overview of events on a particular day, week or month.
The Sunbird application is available for free download on Mozilla's Web site.
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