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Chandler alpha due by April

Turns out a Chandler alpha may be out by April.

Kapor, who spoke to about seventy Stanford University students as part of the university's computer systems colloquium, said the project's goal was to do for application software what Linux had done for operating systems: begin life as essentially a group project, then later challenge proprietary systems and win.

"We think this is a good time to bring to use the OS model to bring to the world of applications software of uncompromising quality," Kapor said.

The group has begun architectural coding, and hopes to have an early alpha release available in April, with bug reporting capabilities and perhaps some networking and security features, Kapor said. In a November blog entry, Kapor predicted that "optimistically, we could have a 1.0 by the end of 2003. Pessimistically, it will be 2004."

Chandler contains both a client and server on the same machine, but said a hosted server version could be added later to challenge Exchange on its home turf, Fortune 500 companies with thousands of Exchange accounts. The software uses several open-source packages, such as Jabber, wxWindows, and Python, as a foundation.

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