IBM Sets Firefox as Inhouse Default

[Otto de Voogd]

Posted: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5406

News I received from IBM employees tell me that IBM is to make Firefox
the default inhouse browser by the 2nd quarter of 2010 so as to enhance
web productivity of their employees.

It's great news that a big multinational is making the switch. IBM's
case can also start a snowball effect as IBM serves the IT needs of
many large companies.

Otto
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[Christopher Blizzard]

Pinged one of my contacts at IBM about this to see if it's actually
true. These things are often more subtle than "everyone, everywhere."

--Chris

[Otto de Voogd]

Note the crucial word "default", they are switching from IE being the
default to Firefox being the default. Apparently IBM employees were
already free to use Firefox if they wanted and many did so, after the
change employees will still be free to use IE (at least that is my
understanding). That said it can't hurt to get this confirmed by
another source, so please let us know.

Otto
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[Ken Saunders]

Posted by Otto de Voogd on SFx
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/540

IBM Sets Firefox as Inhouse Default

News I received from IBM employees tell me that IBM is to make Firefox

the default inhouse browser by the 2nd quarter of 2010 so as to
enhance web productivity of their employees.
It's great news that a big multinational is making the switch. IBM's
case can also start a snowball effect as IBM serves the IT needs of
many large companies.

- Otto

As an IBM employee for 15 years and an enthusiastic supporter of open
source, I am proud to confirm this. We are also aggressively working
to develop, distribute and support several linux open client distros
for internal IBMers including Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu/Debian and SUSE.
It's not your grandpa's IBM anymore!
Cheers!

How amazing is this?!
I'll await your answer. :)

Ken
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[chris hofmann]

very cool! add info like this to
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox

and the
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox#Marketshare_in_the_Enterprise_and_Business
section of that wiki page

-chofmann

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[Aneesh Nair]

I think they also have customized version of Firefox preloaded with some
specific plugins.
i have also heard, tat they also have a internal twitter plugin for firefox.

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[pa...@appcoast.com]

That's a very interesting wiki page. Thanks Chris!

On 20/11/2009 04:22, chris hofmann wrote:
>
> very cool! add info like this to
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox
>
> and the
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox#Marketshare_in_the_Enterprise_and_Business
>
> section of that wiki page
>
> -chofmann
>
> Ken Saunders wrote:
>> Posted by Otto de Voogd on SFx
>> http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/540
>>

>> IBM Sets Firefox as Inhouse Default
>>

>> News I received from IBM employees tell me that IBM is to make Firefox
>> the default inhouse browser by the 2nd quarter of 2010 so as to
>> enhance web productivity of their employees.
>> It's great news that a big multinational is making the switch. IBM's
>> case can also start a snowball effect as IBM serves the IT needs of
>> many large companies.
>> - Otto
>>
>> As an IBM employee for 15 years and an enthusiastic supporter of open
>> source, I am proud to confirm this. We are also aggressively working
>> to develop, distribute and support several linux open client distros
>> for internal IBMers including Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu/Debian and SUSE.
>> It's not your grandpa's IBM anymore!
>> Cheers!
>>
>> How amazing is this?!
>> I'll await your answer. :)
>>
>> Ken
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