I am saddened by continued reports that support for Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, continues to diminish. From DesktopLinux:

The Mozilla Foundation's press release focused on the Firefox 2.12 security fixes.
The Foundation also reported, though, in its MFSA (Mozilla Foundation
Security Advisory), that these same bugs had been fixed in the
fictitious Thunderbird 2.12...

...Still, it is upsetting that
Mozilla reports that these problems have been fixed in a version of
Thunderbird that doesn't exist. The latest version of Thunderbird is
2.09.

Mitchell Baker posted last September the transfer of Thunderbird from Mozilla to a yet to be seen Mailco organization. Just as DesktopLinux mentioned in their article, I've seen little information about what we can with regards to Thunderbird's future. Perhaps, I'm just not looking in the wrong places?

Michael Kaply is starting a new series on the use of Mozilla's Firefox as enterprise software.  In Part 1 he discusses the obstacles for Firefox to to be adopted in the enterprise.

As Firefox gains marketshare, there comes a point where increasing that marketshare depends on the adoption of Firefox in large enterprises. This article investigates what type of issues arise when supporting Firefox in a large enterprise, and what can be done to solve those issues.

The primary areas I will address are:

• Release Lifecycle
• Service and Support
• Business Value
• Third Party Applications
• Intranet Applications
• Deployment issues

In my own organization we have used Netscape/Mozilla products for years especially on the e-mail client side (with Thunderbird currently on every desktop in the office).  However, in today's enterprise environment you need something more than just a good browser or e-mail client on your people's desktop.  IT needs to be able to control, secure, and deploy software much more easily then what Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and Firefox currently provide.  Originally, I had hoped that Mozilla would make better use of the Microsoft Installer (.MSI) and deliver better integration with the Windows Active Directory/Group Policy scheme but such features and abilities never really seemed to surface.

Read more at the Open Source Community...

As part of Mozilla Corporation's ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 1.5.0.9, Firefox 2.0.0.1, and Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from getfirefox.com & getthunderbird.com.

We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. This update is available immediately in 41 languages including Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Hungarian, and more.

For those of you that procrastinate, it is also probably good to note that the folks at Mozilla are also recommending Firefox 1.5 users to go ahead and upgrade to Firefox 2.   That recommendation is based on the fact that support for Firefox 1.5 will officially end on April 24, 2007.  You can read more about this latest Firefox and Thunderbird release on Mozilla.org's Press Releases and Announcement page.

In case you missed it, there are a couple articles recently posted here at CMS Report that are drawing some attention.

In the first article, Version control: The CVS or Subversion question, I posed the simple question of which version control system should I use for a new project my employer has involved me in. A number of people have already responded so far and I thank them for their input. Most commenters spoke favorably of Subversion and recommended it over CVS. While people understood why large open source projects such as Drupal may not abandon CVS they didn't recommend CVS for new projects. So far Subversion has my vote.

In the second article, Headaches from security updates for Firefox and Thunderbird, I pointed out some of the struggles that exist in deploying my favorite browser and e-mail client on an enterprise network. While the comments so far have been few, Asa Dotzler of Mozilla was kind enough to stop by and give his two cents worth. He's been around since the Mozilla suite days and a key player at Spread Firefox. Spread Firefox is a Drupal site even non-Drupal fans should recognize. I'll let Dotzler's comments stand on their own without further comment. Needless to say, there is a reason why I like the Mozilla community. Even when those guys disagree with you they still hold value to your opinion.