More On Kapor's Attempt To Best Outlook

An anonymous reader writes "There's a story on the Boston Globe's Digital MASS section about Mitch Kapor , the guy who created Lotus 1-2-3. He will reportedly spend about $5 mil to create something competing with MS Outlook. More of the story here." We mentioned this a few months ago as well, and it sounds like any software release is still some time off.

In other news...

[doubleyewdee]

Duke Nukem Forever is looking better than ever. No, really. It's going to rock! This will be the ultimate computer game. Really. It's gonna be great. I'll see you all in line at Best Buy!

BuzzWord Bingo

[TTL0]

"We believe what Mitch is doing may catalyze significant for-profit opportunities," Breyer said.

nice job Breyer, spoken like a true master.

Re:Prototypes

[CerebusUS]

It's not gonna succeed if they keep ripping off Microsoft's Exchange Icon :-)

example [osafoundation.org]

Re:Best of luck to him

[Zemran]

Evolution does it for Linux but it cannot handle virii as well as Outlook.

And the award goes to...

[jeremyds]

Mitch Kapor for the best vaporware of 2002!

Re:IMHO

[mark_lybarger]

yes, it integrates a calendar too! isn't that all dependant on the email server being used in the organization? it lets us invite other people to meetings and know if they'll be available. 8 years ago we had to have these "planners" where we wrote our appointments into. everyone would sit around the table at the meeting to decide a good time for the weekly meetings to occur. once everyone figured a good time, it was put into the planner. now at the meetings everyone pulls out their iLittlePalmToy and fumbles around for 4-5 minutes with it trying to figure out where all that scheduling stuff is and determine weather it's been synched in a while... then finally ends up saying "i'll get back to you on a good time, this thing isn't working quite right today".

we've come a long way baby.