Battle lines drawn again between browsers

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09/07/05

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Today's focus:

Battle lines drawn again between browsers

By John Fontana

Late on the night of Sept. 30, 1997, a group of Microsoft
employees strategically placed a large metal likeness of the
Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn at Netscape
Communications in Mountain View, Calif. - a signal that the
browser war was fully ignited.

Earlier that evening, Internet Explorer 4.0 had been released in
San Francisco and hailed by critics as more stable than
Netscape's Navigator, which enjoyed 72% market share. In five
years, that number collapsed to less than 4%, and what little
was left included an open source skunkworks project called
Phoenix.

Fast-forward to 2005, and a second war appears to be heating up.

Phoenix is now Firefox, which is the new upstart, gaining more
than 8% market share since its release in November, based on
more than 82 million downloads. Firefox also has eclipsed
Internet Explorer's feature set at the same time Microsoft's
browser has dragged users through another round of security
flaws.

Last month, non-profit Mozilla.org, the Firefox creator that was
established by Netscape in 1998, spun off a for-profit
subsidiary to explore Firefox's potential and service and
support options, a move clearly targeted at winning over IT
shops.

Also last month, IBM, with tens of thousands of employees on
Firefox, began offering internal tech support on the browser and
encouraging staff to download it from internal servers. Last
year, Penn State University urged its faculty and students to
dump Internet Explorer in favor of Firefox, Opera, Safari,
Netscape and other browsers.

To read more, please go to:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090505-firefox-ie.html?rl>

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