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Opera Browser Creators Planning IPO

Posted by simoniker on from the great-googly-moogly dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Norwegian web browser developer Opera Software is reportedly planning an Initial Public Offering on the Oslo Stock Exchange next month. According to a press release issued today, Opera's revenue for the last quarter grew 108.7% and CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner stated that 'After developing and refining the technology and commercial side for nine years, Opera Software is now ready for public listing.' Opera has, according to CNET News, gained popularity in the past few months thanks, in part, to having ported their well-known browser to smartphones."

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  1. Why Pay? by Slack0ff · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why pay for Opera when Mozilla v1.6 is out. Support free software and may pay software face eternal dmannation. Okay maybe eternal was overkill. But I would like to see a period similar in length to Cali's Death row.

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  2. Bad timing. by -kertrats- · · Score: 1, Troll

    This news on the same day that Firefox 0.8 comes out. With everyone all gung ho over the new mozilla browser, no ones gonna give a rip about opera.

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    1. Re:Bad timing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Everyone? Yeah, if you define 'everyone' as 'dirty, smelly, long-haired hippies who live in their moms' basements and have never so much as touched a human female'.

  3. Re:I wonder which by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just an FYI - Opera's performance when it comes to security flaws has been worse than I.E.

  4. Re:Opera rocks. Seriously. by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who cares?

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  5. Re:I wonder which by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's becauase an attacker can simply write some nice nasty java script to blow away your files.

  6. Re:I wonder which by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is no FUD in them there hills:

    Found on the bugtraq mailing lists, opera features a wide range of buffer overflow, aribitrary code execution, local file access vulnerabilities, etc. etc. Have a look. Some of them are quite nasty.

    There have also been instances where Opera has not been quick to respond, these too are documented in the dicussion groups.

    As far as I can tell the last Opera Only reported vulnerability was 12-23-2003.

    Opera Vulns

    As far as open vulns go, that doesn't happen much these days. The hackers usually contact the vendor before posting their exploit.