The open source version ofEudorais now available for download,
three months after the e-mail client stopped selling
commercially.
The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta version, 8.0.0b1,
of the revised Eudora e-mail application. The new version of Eudora
is being developed under the codename "Penelope" and the project is
being led by
the
former Qualcomm team, including original developer Steve
Dorner. A full replacement version of Eudora is not expected until
2008, at the very earliest.
On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced that future versions of
Eudora would be based on the same technology platform as Mozilla
Thunderbird and be open source.
The Qualcomm Penelope developers announced in July: "We
currently have, in house, our first actual Beta build, called
Eudora 8.0.0b1. We will probably get this posted in the next few
weeks." This open source, Thunderbird-based version has been under
development since 2006, but will not be a true replacement for the
current Eudora in terms of features and capabilities until 2008 at
the earliest.
