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Qualcomm - a company best known for its role in cellular technology but which is also the owner of the popular Eudora email client - is to cease production of the commercial version of the product and, in conjunction with the Mozilla Foundation make all future versions of Eudora open source and free and based on the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program.
The announcement coincides with release of new, and final, commercial versions of the current Eudora products for Windows (Eudora 7.1) and Mac (Eudora 6.2.4) operating systems.
The open source version of Eudora is targeted to release during the first half of calendar year 2007 at which time sales of the commercial product will cease. In the interim, Qualcomm will continue commercial sales, at a reduced price of $US19.95 and with a six-month period of technical support. Existing technical support commitments will be honoured in their entirety.
Qualcomm promises that the future open source versions "will retain Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements."
"Using the Mozilla Thunderbird technology platform as a basis for future versions of Eudora will provide some key infrastructure that the existing versions lacked, such as a cross-platform code base and a world-class display engine," Steve Dorner, vice president of technology for Qualcomm's Eudora Group said. "Making it open source will bring more developers to bear on Eudora than ever before."
According to Wikipedia Eudora was developed by Steve Dorner in 1988 as a part of his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was acquired by Qualcomm in 1991. It was named for Eudora Welty because of her short story "Why I Live at the P.O."
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