Mitch Kapor: Does Microsoft-Yahoo Make Sense?
News Mitch Kapor, president of Kapor Enterprises, shares his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6bn (£22.7bn) bid for Yahoo. He also discusses Google's involvement in the proposed deal, and how Facebook fits into the technology...
[February 6, 2008, 9:50]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. The organisation's "personal information manager" software will have many of the same features as Microsoft Outlook, with an emphasis on tools that...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Open Source Gurus Issue Patent Warning
News He was joined in a panel discussion by Brian Behlendorf, a co-founder of the Apache Web server software, and Mitch Kapor, chairman of the Mozilla foundation and the Open Source Applications Foundation.
[February 2, 2005, 8:10]
Wednesday
Blog Wednesday 23/10/2002And talking of Notes, the progenitor of Lotus, Mitch Kapor, is back in the news. He's invested a few million in the Open Source Application Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which intends to produce a personal...
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
OASIS Patent Policy Lambasted
News Open source and free-software advocates including Mitch Kapor, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Lawrence Rosen, Doc Searls and Richard Stallman signed an email urging the community not to implement certain specifications...
[February 23, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft Readies New Exchange
News In October, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor said he was developing a free, open-source alternative to Outlook. Microsoft has said the new version of Exchange, code-named Titanium, will be called Exchange Server 2003.
[January 6, 2003, 16:05]
AOL Lays Off Netscape Staff
News The foundation is funded in large part by a $2m (£1.25m) donation from AOL and $300,000 from Lotus founder Mitch Kapor. America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid...
[July 16, 2003, 7:57]
Sun CEO Taken In By Photoshop
News Lotus founder Mitch Kapor posted the same bogus photo to his blog in November, later noting his mistake. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy showed a photo during a Wednesday speech to illustrate how rapidly technology improves--but instead...
[December 9, 2004, 12:00]
Open-source Search Looks For Web Niche
News Already itching to work on another search engine, Cutting spearheaded the effort from there, bringing on three founding developers, and forming a board of directors that includes Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and co-founder of the Electronic...
[August 18, 2003, 17:05]
Nokia Invests In Mozilla Mobile Browser
News Lotus founder Mitch Kapor pitched in an additional $300,000. Nokia has funded a mobile-phone browser project at the Mozilla Foundation, breathing new life into the open-source effort once written off as Microsoft roadkill.
[June 18, 2004, 16:40]
Will Mozilla's Lightning Strike Outlook?
News Lotus Development founder Mitch Kapor is president of both Mozilla and OSAF. The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title. The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's...
[December 23, 2004, 8:00]
Netscape Browser Left With Skeleton Staff
News The loose Mozilla.org group, which had overseen the open-source development efforts of the Mozilla browser upon which the Netscape browser was based, is transforming itself into a nonprofit foundation, funded in large part by a $2m (£1.25m...
[July 17, 2003, 13:28]
Blogs Open Doors For Developers
News Mitch Kapor, founder of software pioneer Lotus and creator of its breakthrough 1-2-3 spreadsheet program, started a development blog early on in his quest to build a smarter personal information manager.
[January 31, 2003, 12:47]
Calendaring: The Last Great Niche?
News In one extrapolation of this, Mitch Kapor, president and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, talked about "stamping" tasks or events, or annotating them with meaning in time, with a beginning and end, a structure and notes.
[December 8, 2005, 7:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The usual suspects are there -- Howard Rheingold, Alan Kay, Mitch Kapor -- as well as this year's models, Craig Silverstein, director of tech at Google. Monday 21/04/2003Happy Easter! Tuesday 22/04/2003Meanwhile, over in Santa Clara, the O'Reilly...
[April 25, 2003, 16:16]
Gates And Jobs Share The Stage
News The keynote kicked off with a 1983 video of a young Jobs hosting the "Macintosh software dating game" with three software chief executives — Gates, Mitch Kapor of Lotus and Fred Gibbons. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple chief executive Steve...
[May 31, 2007, 9:53]
Sun Shines On Linux Desktop
News Mitch Kapor, founder of office software maker Lotus, is working on an Outlook clone. Sun Microsystems and start-up Ximian have jointly developed software that lets Ximian's Evolution software connect to Sun's email and calendar server software, the...
[January 23, 2003, 7:44]
Microsoft's Groove Move Makes Solid Sense
Leader Open source is not out of the running - Ozzie's old Lotus buddy, Mitch Kapor, is hard at work with the OSAF's own Chandler groupware project - but it's lagging. Microsoft's purchase of Groove Networks, software development team and its transferral...
[March 11, 2005, 13:15]
