The Phoenix

Well, now I'm psyched. Mitch Kapor has just created a weblog which will chronicle his development of a new open-source personal information management product.  Kapor was one of the original developers of Lotus Agenda, the legendary early DOS-based PIM and probably the first prominent example of orphanware when it was dropped by Lotus because it was not generating millions of dollars of income per year.  Kapor later left Lotus (long before the IBM acquisition) to co-found the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 

The PIM world has been urging Kapor to develop a Windows-based version of Agenda, and he's been "thinking about it", for at least ten years.  Now, it seems, he is getting started.  He is going further, though, in planning for this product as one which will seamlessly run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.  We cannot wait.

See also "Software idea may be just crazy enough to work", Dan Gilmor, SiliconValley.com

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