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Mozilla to Businesses We're Not Interested
Mozilla Executive endured the wrath of IT professionals with the suspension a bit sensitive about Firefox and its focus on business.

This was a comment in response to a blog post by a specialist and consultant Mike Kaply Firefox. He praised the right of the agenda Kaply Firefox quick release and the negative impact on companies. And released only Firefox 4 March: an example. Now, after three months, Firefox version 5.0 in the stable. And thus, stop supporting the Mozilla Firefox 4.

He pointed out that this Kaply incredible work schedule "work for the average user" but "does not fly in an environment [a] companies, especially in places like banks." "He expected the company to go through the full development cycle for the browser, every six weeks is simply ridiculous."

Others seem to agree, and its position is now 60 comments and counting something. Posts especially vocal provided by the IT people who support the thousands of Firefox customers:

"We have 500,000 corporate users on Firefox 3.6. We have only tested Firefox episode 4 on thousands of internal business Web applications," said one.

Poster addresses the same concerns about the end of support: "By the time the check 5 Firefox, which I guarantee that will not Firefox 5 6 EOL when Firefox is free?"

But what really raised the torch on this blog and the response of Mozilla's Asa Dotzler Executive Kaply:

"Mike, you realize that about 2 million downloads of Firefox a day regular user types, is not it? You have" large numbers "is really just a drop in the bucket, and fractions of fractions of percent of our customer base.

"Enterprise has never been (and I would argue, should not) focus on our part," he continued Dotzler. "Until we run out of people who are not sysadmins and business development teams for inspection, I can not imagine why we focus on the nature of the environments are all you care about that much."

Dotzler's comments are both contempt and scorn of the companies that deploy Firefox in their organizations. And sometimes, at their own risk, I would like to add. While Firefox is a wonderful player with a unique collection of features and regular updates, and sometimes the lack of good documentation, and extended the first half when a new work comes from - they do all this intensive selection for the reader's companies.

I tell companies that they do not "focus" should not be developers of Firefox is also the potential gains of the suicide bomber. Yes, Firefox makes a profit and one strong, profitable companies with a commercial search engine. Mozilla spent $ 104 million profit in 2009, and largely deal with Google.

However, recently persuaded the adoption of the Firefox chrome, and many speculate that Google is expected with the additions to the end of this year's profits will be affected by how the Mozilla Firefox if you can not do the same thing with Google and other advertising partners snag. According to network applications, and download the Firefox 24.3 percent market share in 21.9 percent in May 2010 to May 2011. During the same period, Google Chrome a significant increase from 7 percent to 12.5 percent. "

Dotzler's comments are in conflict with Mozilla and the open source community is to tell the companies for the year: to give open source a try. However, companies are reluctant to open source en masse, and this arrogant attitude shown by the Dotzler take evidence why.

The information technology sector has a healthy fear of open source, due to a lack of awareness of issues, and support the licensing and other reasons. It is good if you upgrade the device home with enthusiastic new additions all the work or Linux distribution. In the business, any change, upgrades and large, private, and testing to make sure it does not break anything in production environments. This is critical, especially in private companies, in-house Web-based applications.

Many companies use the Firefox extensions are used in commercial operations. What happens when mission-critical simply does not work, and Mozilla does not support this version of Firefox does not? It's the most dangerous business IT managers will not and can not take.

I think the comments Dotler is hardly representative of most of the open source community, not in Mozilla. We reach out to Mozilla for comment and published accordingly. But certainly not now time for all employees in the company to close Mozilla and Firefox, especially with the rate of adjustment is slow.

Updated: Kilo Needham, director of the channel in the Mozilla has responsed to the request for comment:

"And web browsers and the Internet continues to evolve rapidly Mozilla focus is on providing users with the best possible experience the Web, should be additions to the rate of users and web developers expect. The release of small, focused updates frequently, we are able to improve security and stability to deliver, even if the features New is the best for our users and the network itself. "

"We recognize that this shift may not be compatible with the policy of information technology in a large organization, and understand that it is a challenge for organizations that intensive policy of certification effort, but focusing the development process to deliver products on the web as it is today, while building innovative Web future . linking the development of products for the Firefox regulatory process that our control will make it difficult for us to continue to recover for our members and improve the network. "