Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Impact of Mozilla's decision regarding Thunderbird on LibreOffice and need to act?

Dear Charles,

thank you very much for your reply.

> [...] I am not sure I agree with your thesis. I would point out that in most
> organization it's the email / groupware server (Exchange/Lotus) that's
> the primary barrier, not the mail client.
> If I'm not mistaken Thunderbird or Mozilla do not distribute such
> groupware server.
Thundbird/Lightning as client programmes is in this regard similar 
situation like LibreOffice, Yes, Mozilla does not provide a groupware 
server, but - with some quirks - TB can communicate with those (e.g. 
Exchange).
I think, you are right for big organisations or companies, but for the 
small and medium size organisations/companies the email/PIM client is 
central (e.g. our institute (university) with roughly 100 staff is based 
on IMAP-Server, shared calendar, shared adress book, shared storage). 
For this big target group of organisations/companies, there is basically 
the decision between MS Outlook and Thunderbird/Lightning. And if 
Outlook is chosen, the Office suite is MS Office.
> [...] But to come back to your suggestion, I think that while the development
> or distribution of a mail client alongside LibreOffice might be worth
> thinking about *if the appropriate resources* are available, the notion
> that the Document Foundation would "take over" the development of
> Thunderbird is impractical, and will not become real in any way.
What I am proposing is not to take over the development in any way, my 
suggestion is more in the way of signalling to Mozilla.org that 
TB/Lightning are also very important projects for the future success of 
LibreOffice. And maybe in the direction of promoting the other 
project/product to be the best complement to the own software 
(LibreOffice + TB/Lightning = full office suite).
There are, of course, also interesting features, where the teams could 
cooperate, e.g. the ability to view ODF files directly in Thunderbird. 
Or to edit ODF files with LibreOffice from within TB without the hazzle 
of saving_from_email -> editing_in_LO -> saving_in_LO _> 
attach_again_to_email.

Best regards,
Gerry

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