IBM: And the winner is...Firefox!
By Stela Roman
IBM's Vice President of Open Source , Bob Sutor, has recently made a blog post saying that the company will be shifting to Mozilla Firefox as their window to Internet.
IBM has about 400,000 employees around the world. Firefox will be pre-loaded as the default browser on all new computers. Current users will be encouraged to adopt it as well.
«While other browsers have come and gone, Firefox is now the gold standard for what an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be», said Sutor. «Today we already have thousands of employees using it on Linux, Mac, and Windows laptops and desktops, but we’re going to be adding thousands more users to the rolls», he added.
Here is the list of reasons IBM took this decision:
- Firefox is open source and its development schedule is managed by a development community not beholden to one commercial entity.
- Firefox is secure and an international community of experts continues to develop and maintain it.
- Firefox is extensible and can be customized for particular applications and organizations, like IBM.
- Firefox is innovative and has forced the hand of browsers that came before and after it to add and improve speed and function.
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