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"On 7/14/10 1:40 PM, Alan Lord (Gmail) wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C3E20C6.6080300@gmail.com" type="cite">On
14/07/10 20:46, Dan Mosedale wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"> A current version of this document can
be found at
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose/Tb_Product_Notes"><https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose/Tb_Product_Notes></a>.
Feel free to
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comment in this tb-planning thread or on the wiki comment page.
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Thanks for these posts, interesting stuff.
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You're welcome!<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4C3E20C6.6080300@gmail.com" type="cite">One
question if I may, or please tell me to go elsewhere, but why is
the Market focus just SOHO? </blockquote>
From a strategic point of view, the biggest conflict is in values
alignment: <br>
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"Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on
the Internet."<br>
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Enterprise deployers generally value minimizing support burden
significantly more highly than (for example) allowing users to
customize their installation. Additionally, enterprises value many
features in ways (eg calendaring) that are fundamentally very
different than the ways that end users tend to value them.<br>
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More operationally, a big motivation behind this statement is simply
an intent to focus. Mozilla as an organization doesn't have
significant experience in working with the Enterprise sector, and
Thunderbird as a project has far too few active developers to do a
good job with both individual and enterprise features.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4C3E20C6.6080300@gmail.com" type="cite">What's
up with going after the larger business sector? I'd love to see TB
able to fit into more of a corporate environment and provide a
decent, cross-platform, alternative to Outlook ...
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While we don't feel we are in a position to include the enterprise
in the scope of the core product, there are people and organizations
in the Thunderbird community who are interested in this market, some
of whom are participating in the add-on ecosystem and some in
maintaining older branches of Thudnerbird for enterprise customers.<br>
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Some of them are small businesspeople, and others work for larger
players in the enterprise space (such as Red Hat). The
tb-enterprise mailing list is a good place to get in contact with
that group of people.<br>
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Dan<br>
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