Lotus founder preps Open Source Outlook alternative

An anonymous coward tells us of this story: “Can a fledgling nonprofit organization with half a dozen employees challenge the largest software company in the world?

Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. He is heading up a project to build a free, open-source equivalent of Microsoft Outlook, the set of e-mail, calendar and contacts applications that comes with Microsoft’s pervasive Office suite.”