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Providers of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.) and mobile data network access (i.e., as an add-on to cellular voice service). Members of this group, most notably telcos and other communications providers, share the interest of enterprise IT shops in control, stability, and standardization; they also have stringent requirements for low memory footprint and optimal use of limited display areas. Firefox (and Mozilla in general) has traditionally not been able to match the performance of other browsers (e.g., Opera) in this space (although this may change in the future as a result of Minimo and related work).

From: http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/firefox-value-network

many government agencies, especially outside the US, have adopted (or are considering adopting) policies encouraging the use of open source products, including Firefox. To the extent that they do so they will form yet another component in the Firefox value network.

From: http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/firefox-value-network

Link: Frank Hecker, Mozilla : The Firefox value network

Link: inside aebrahim's head: Firefox adoption amongst High Schoolers

Firefox adoption amongst High Schoolers

I just spoke to a friend of mine from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business who's the CEO of PrepMe, a startup firm that runs an online SAT prep course. He mentions that they've hired a new web designer to make their website "Mozilla-compliant" (his words, not mine) because about 12% of their visitors are using Firefox!

Given the likely demographics of their users (I think there's a pretty decent chance that most visitors are kids in high school), it looks like Firefox is scoring big points amongst teenagers. I know it's not big news -- we've known this for a while but it's always great hearing from content creators that Firefox adoption is growing and they're having to adapt or be left behind.

It's often hard to gauge the impact of Firefox based on raw percentages alone, but when someone tells you that they've had to make business decisions based on an increase in Firefox usage, that's something concrete you can't ignore.

Another friend of mine who helps to run some of the IT infrastructure for one of the largest Model United Nations conferences for high schoolers in the United States has also provided me with a day's worth of their web server logs. I haven't yet parsed it, but I hope to do so within a couple of days. The results should be interesting.

UPDATE (2005-09-27):PrepMe's new standards-compliant website has gone live! Check it out!


From: http://blog.ebrahim.org/archives/2005/04/27/firefox_adoption_amongst_high_schoolers.php



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