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IBM Backs Firefox In-House

Posted by Zonk on from the adopt-a-fox dept.

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."

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  1. About time by M3rk1n_Muffl3y · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Tech Support / Costs by RailGunner · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'd personally like to see an estimate on the costs savings of switching to Firefox from IE. It costs IT departments a lot of (wasted) money cleaning up desktops that have been compromised by a malicious ActiveX control.

    Since I'm sure some bean counter had to approve the switching, it seems to me that some cost analysis had to be done, and they realized Firefox would have a lower "TCO".

    I'm sure getting away from being dependent on a rival's product factored into the decision, but I'm pretty sure cost factored as well.

  3. Will Firefox make it to the systems as default? by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will Firefox make it to the computer systems IBM ships as the default browser? That will even be better. Can IBM flex muscles here? I doubt. The surest way of denting IE's share is by governments ordering PCs specifying that the browser installed should meet all W3C standards that the browser supports 100%. I understand that in procurement, specifying a product name is not allowed, so mentioning Firefox as the browser is a non-starter.

  4. Re:Good example? by Zlorfik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As an IBM employee, I was shocked how virtually every internal app worked with Firefox right from the get go.

    That's when I knew this browser was for real in terms of being an IE replacement.