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IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser

Posted by kdawson on from the good-thing-orange-goes-with-blue dept.

e9th writes "Ars Technica reports that IBM has adopted Firefox as its company-wide browser. Firefox will be installed on all new employee computers, and all 400,000 employees will be encouraged to use it. Speaking of encouraging Firefox use, IBM VP Bob Sutor blogs: 'We will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox.' I hope this means that if IBM can't navigate a vendor's site with Firefox, they'll just look elsewhere."

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  1. IBM tells Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    to go Blue itself.

  2. Lenovo compatible by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they still produce IBM-branded personal computers?

    IBM sold the PC business to Lenovo half a decade ago. So now most desktop and laptop PCs are "Lenovo compatible".

  3. Re:Great News for Companies Scarred by IE6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Client Customization Kit has a URL of http://code.google.com/p/ff-cckwizard/ ? I'm so not looking forward to forwarding that to my boss :-s

  4. Firefox in COBOL? by Trip6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It would be bulletproof...

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  5. Re:Great News for Companies Scarred by IE6 by FrankieBaby1986 · · Score: 2, Funny

    couldn't they just use the no execute flag when mounting the vol... oh wait, wrong OS.

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