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Sounds like you have way more knowledge than I do about what was happening, and what results they got. As best as I can say is that when you look at the people he pulled together, you’d expect the whole world to be on Chandler now, instead of Outlook and Google. Yet there was barely a production release, and it’s been abandoned for more than a decade.

I thank them for trying. But it seems like a great example of an “Apollo Team”.




Mitch was trying to do (at least) three things at once:

- make a hackable, open source tool

— create a new interaction model for PIM data

- be a livable Mail/Calendar client

The team assembled would probably have been quite competent at doing any one of those things!

It’s not clear to me there was a path to achieving a harmonious combination of all three given any staffing.




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