Mozilla is soon to release the newest version of its Sunbird and Lightning, i.e. version 0.3.1 RC1. I came across an interesting news from Mozilla Wiki that with the purpose of calling the user community to participate in the final stage of Sunbird and Lightning testing on February 9th to 10th 2007.

As stated on the Mozilla Web page, Sunbird and Lightning are fairly the new applications, still under development of the project developers. Sunbird is designed as a cross-platform calendar whereas Lightning is served as a extension for use directly in Thunderbird, and with the objective in enable users to perform email-related calendaring tasks in an easy manner. Though I can understand both of these two applications share some of the same code, however I believe these two applications are developed independently from each other. Currently, the version that Sunbird and Lightning offered to the public download are version 0.3 respectively.

I wonder what is the actual plan for Mozilla with regard to the aforesaid applications. If they going to integrate Sunbird and Lightning to Thunderbird or SeaMonkey, there will be a strong and powerful all-in-one Internet suite one can realize on the Web.

N.B. Mozilla has just released the SeaMonkey version 1.1 on January 18th 2007.