Qualcomm pulls the plug on Eudora
Oct 18, 2006 | 10:26 PM
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Qualcomm pulls the plug on Eudora
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SAN DIEGO - The Eudora e-mail software has been around nearly 20 years, long before the Internet became a household word. Now, with its glory days behind, its owner is calling it quits.
Qualcomm Inc., the company best known as a pioneer of the CDMA technology that powers many of the world's mobile phones, says the latest Eudora release will be its last commercial version, available at a cut-rate price of $19.95 with six months technical support.
Beginning next year, Eudora will evolve and incorporate code from Thunderbird, the free, open-source e-mail program from Mozilla Corp. New versions will be based entirely on Thunderbird code, and the software will be given away free.
SAN DIEGO - The Eudora e-mail software has been around nearly 20 years, long before the Internet became a household word. Now, with its glory days behind, its owner is calling it quits.
Qualcomm Inc., the company best known as a pioneer of the CDMA technology that powers many of the world's mobile phones, says the latest Eudora release will be its last commercial version, available at a cut-rate price of $19.95 with six months technical support.
Beginning next year, Eudora will evolve and incorporate code from Thunderbird, the free, open-source e-mail program from Mozilla Corp. New versions will be based entirely on Thunderbird code, and the software will be given away free.
Oct 22, 2006 | 07:07 PM
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That doesn't surprise me. I used it for a long time, but recently Eudora didn't offer anything Thunderbird and other free clients don't have.
The advertising system they used was very annoying, and people probably are not about to pay for software like that anymore.
The advertising system they used was very annoying, and people probably are not about to pay for software like that anymore.
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