Can a fledgling nonprofit organization with half a dozen employees challenge the largest software company in the world?
Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. He is heading up a project to build a free, open-source equivalent of Microsoft Outlook, the set of e-mail, calendar and contacts applications that comes with Microsoft’s pervasive Office suite. The organization’s “personal information manager” software will have many of the same features as Microsoft Outlook, with an emphasis on tools that allow people to work collaboratively in groups and share information, said Kapor, who is funding the project with $5 million from his own pocket. The software will incorporate Jabber, an open-source instant messaging system, as well as an easy-to-use e-mail encryption system that Kapor’s organization is developing, he said. Kapor is credited with designing Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program that helped drive the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. IBM purchased Lotus in 1995. He hopes that his nonprofit organization–the San Francisco-based Op
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