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Story: Two million Thunderbirds are go
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 12 January 2005, 5:33 AM)
The times, they are a changing. At my company, we integrate a product made in our Taiwan office, works great with IE (The web portal and javascript OA&M interface). Being part of the interface to a telecom product, and all telco's are security extremists, lab trials failed because neither Mozilla or Firefox or Netscape, the ONLY ACCEPTABLE AND ALLOWED BROWSERs in the production environment (i.e. critical security areas running UNIX or Linux only, you don't find a lot of Windows in telcom offices), didn't work. The reason, relying on IE's MIME sniffer (or rather automatic virus propagation feature) the coder's got lazy in the javascript. Guess what, within 2 weeks, everything was tightened up, Firefox works great, and the customer is deploying the product. Amazing too, I told them for months it didn't work except with IE, they too scoffed, who cares, IE rules.
Something else to keep in mind, if there are 16M downloads of Firefox and 2M downloads of Thunderbird, then there are at least 32M firefox users and 4M thunderbird users because, like me, it came packaged with my distro, so I didn't download them.
Kevin
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