Firefox ‘commercial partner’
p2pnet.net News:- Mozilla Europe is to “snuggle up” to a commercial partner to assure technical support.
Snuggle up?
Yep.
That’s according to silicon.com which goes on, “Tristant Nitot, president and founder of Mozilla Europe, said at the Linux Solutions 2005 conference: ‘2005 is the year that Firefox has to conquer businesses and government organisations’.”
Mozilla Europe is developing, “complementary administration tools to the browser to make it easier to deploy to a network," he said, pointing out that the foundation is also, "looking at getting together with a commercial partner, which will provide technical support and other services around Firefox".
But the partnership, “doesn’t have a money-making aim, our objective isn’t to grow our market share in new markets but simply to ensure the durability of our structures," Nitot emhasises. "Our mission consists of reintroducing competition, and therefore innovation, into the browser market.”
A deal will be finalised soon, but Nitot wouldn’t reveal the name of the partner, says silicon.com, adding:
“According to a recent study of browser use by Xiti Monitor, Firefox now has over 10 per cent of the market in France.”
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snuggle up - Firefox’s ’secret support partner’ revealed in weeks, silicon.com, February 4, 2005
