Its about time IBM got serious about the rather nifty browser. One reason Big Blue has been slow to the party is many of its internal apps…were written to IE extensions. So much for standards compliance.
Thanks Cote for the pointer to this ad. It seems IBM is hiring Foxylicious types in Austin.
Required skills and experience: Software development on the Mozilla Suite and/or Firefox web browser projects. XPCOM and Gecko, C++, HTML, CSS and XML desired.
Acceptance as a contributor in mozilla community, published works with experience in any of the following areas is a plus: XForms processor development, Java, Perl, VB, ASP, CGI, XBL, XUL, RDF, JavaScript, SQL, Mozilla XSLT processing engine, web services, web security standards implementation.
In related news Firefox is moving into platform ecosystem territory, the prow is cutting a wake. We now have startups emerging – go Round Two! (and please get in touch if you read this, we’d like to speak to you). Google, IBM and places to put VC money, that’s a party starting.
Are we seeing the end of the beginning of the end of IE only?
The fact Forrester feels the need to bash Firefox is another obvious indicator of momentum. I will let slashdot root Nate though. Suffice to say extension management issues shouldn’t stop a pilot, in my opinion. On the contrary the pilot is there to work out the issues, isn’t it? So that the IT organization can understand technical and policy issues associated with a new technology. Folks will download the software anyway; what the organization needs is policy and experience to deal with it.
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