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Just curious, but how does Mozilla know that corporate users make up such a small minority?
by binxbolling 15y ago
Just curious, but how does Mozilla know that corporate users make up such a small minority?
- girishmony 15y agoCorporate users are many in number and only few is sticking with Firefox. Majority of the people is with IE, especially with IE6 (sigh). May be Asa would have said that
- dexen 15y agoIt's not that all corporate users lumped together are small minority. I'ts about the 500.000 number quoted by one of admins as their corporate user count. Comparing single corporation with all the other users is a valid argument, since every corporation defines its needs differently. The non-corporate users are quite homogenous and can be lumped together. The core problem is the corporate users demand extra support to spare them some costs. They want browser vendors to ensure bug-for-bug compatibility with all their internal systems -- rather than invest in updating the systems. Moreover, corporate users expect browsers to adapt to their particular set of systems, while still going forward on othre fields. I'd call it a minefield, and one without any grattitude to be won. It's pretty damn hard to innovate and develop a browser for such market. Contrast that with consumer market, where content providers, ISPs etc. consider it natural part of business to update their customer-facing WWW once in a while. The browser is free to go forward, and chances are the new, cool features will soon be put to good use. Way more breathing space for innovation.