Corporate market is not interesting for Mozilla

A curious example of business confrontation was demonstrated this week by the manufacturers of the two most popular browsers - Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation. The most remarkable is that the background of the situation that has arisen is not even officially stated, but circulates at the level of rumors, which does not prevent, however, from making rather loud statements.

So, this week it became known about the plans of the Mozilla Foundation to stop issuing security updates for FireFox 4 - the source of this fact was the mailing list mozilla.dev.planning . In response to this, from the IBM office, there was a reaction from one of CIO IBM managers Mark Gennessy (Mark Hennessy) in the form of a comment to the blog of one of FireFox developers Michael Kaply. In this comment, IBM manager John Walicki laments the Mozilla dubious decision and calls it a “kick in the stomach”, explaining his position by the fact that his unit spent months testing the applications they developed compatibility with FireFox 4 and now plans must be changed.

Microsoft responded to the blog commentary situation quite quickly. Ari Bixhorn, Internet Explorer Development Director, published an open letter on his blog, in which he unobtrusively hinted that Microsoft appreciates corporate users and supports Internet Explorer until January 2020.

The move by the Mozilla Foundation was also not long in coming. Asa Dotzler, coordinator of Mozilla’s marketing projects, responded in the sense that Firefox was never oriented and would not be oriented towards working in the corporate segment. On the contrary, Mozilla's preferences are ordinary people who need a simple and safe tool for working on the Internet and who will not pay for technical support, as IBM can easily afford to do.
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[Source - ComputerWorld ]