Calendar is coming to Thunderbird.
Published: 2006-08-08
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At the office we've standardized on Thunderbird as an email client. That's what's we recomend and it's what get's installed by default.

Ofcourse there are people that still haven't list enough emails to stop using outlook...

Their main reason is that they want to keep a calendar etc in it.

Until now there really was little to offer, unless going the Novell or IBM way. Which is probably less painful then installing Outlook+Exchange server, but not a good+good solution either.

So it's great news to hear that Lightning (Thunderbird's calander plugin) is entering beta stage, closing to the big O release. Then we can just have a nice and smooth intergration with the other openplatform software we run at the office and be done with outlook (and closed source dependancy) once and for all.

"Lightning supports CalDAV [isoc.org] for sharing calendar information. Apple announced yesterday that Leopard iCal Server and the iCal application will both talk CalDAV, they released the server at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration [macosforge.org]. Bedework [bedework.org] is making a lot of progress as an institutional calendar server.

Oracle has a CalDAV stack. IBM has some stuff in the works as well.

It looks like exchange will have a fight on its hands very soon."