IBM Backs Firefox In-House

An anonymous reader wrote in with the link to a CNet story describing IBM's adoption of the Firefox browser for internal use. From the article: "Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM's staff, or about 30,000 people. Starting this past Friday, IBM workers could download the browser from internal servers and get support from the company's help desk staff. IBM's commitment to Firefox is among its most prominent votes of confidence from a large corporation."

Comments

And

[Anonymous Coward]

It runs great on OS/2! I can format floppies and browse the web... AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Re:More companies should follow suit ...

[lord_rob the only on]

Time to get a new job ehhh ;-)

Re:More companies should follow suit ...

[Keiyentai]

Hm interesting, I wonder how IBM will effect FireFox.

Download count

[JoaoPinheiro]

Meaning 20,000 more downloads not counting on the Official Firefox Download Counter.

Re:Download count

[Anonymous Coward]

-1, Misunderstood the parent

Re:Download count

[Anonymous Coward]

So using RIAA math, there are at least 800 million Firefox users since every copy of the 80 million downloaded files is illegaly copied by ten people. Opera Software could make a claim that it's lost 31.2 billion dollars in revenues due to Firefox. I heard rumors that Darl McBride have shown interest of becoming the CEO of Opera Software...

Microsoft Counter

[xCepheus]

In other news Microsoft countered by saying that after conducting an extensive poll of it's thousands of employees that "tabbed browsing" was not something that internet users wanted.

They also added that most Softies said that 1 "tab" would be enough for anyone.

Google article withdrawl

[panaceaa]

Where are today's articles about Google!? There's 4 articles about Firefox and nothing, NOTHING, about Google!!

Re:Google article withdrawl

[M3rk1n_Muffl3y]

It's Friday and the Google crew is out playing Volleyball.

Re:Google article withdrawl

[rjelks]

"It's Friday and the Google crew is out playing Volleyball."

I think you mean Dodgeball.

Re:Good example?

[kagemaru]

you: hey boss let's adopt firefox instead of IE
boss: fire.. what?
you: firefox... IBM supports it.
boss: says who?
you: uuuh... there is this crappy CNET story...
etc

Re:Good reference case

[Glowing Fish]

No one ever got fired for imitating IBM.

Re:Probably a greater effect than at work

[Anonymous Coward]

Once these employees are using FireFox at work, there is a good chance that they'll start to use it as home

who cares ? What is the promised land here ? Everyone lets switch to Firefox and teach Microsoft a lesson ?

Personally, I prefer Safari over FireFox

Yeah Safari rocks. No ad filtering, no configurability. Brushed metal. Hardwired Google search. Built on stolen KHTML webcore that Apple pilfered from KDE.

But I don't blame you, Firefox is a pile of shit on the Mac.

Interesting sequence of stories...

[lazlo]

first there's "Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90%", and now we learn that "Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM's staff". So, it seems that IBM's employees are a lot like the rest of the internet.

Re:About time

[Anonymous Coward]

I work at a major investment bank and just yesterday they decided to send a memo around saying that Firefox is not to be used. I wonder why that was? No, really does anyone have any suggestions.

You are working for Microsoft ?

Re:More companies should follow suit ...

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

These "MS shops" will eventually pay for their lack of vision. Told them, we did. Listen, they did not. Now, screwed they will be.

Even so...

[mrchaotica]

Yoda, you are not.