Title: The Revival of Mozilla in the Browser War Against Internet Explorer
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Added on: 23 May 2006
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The competition between Internet Explorer and Netscape has been one of the famous issues in the IT world regarding the phenomenon of market dynamics in the information age. Previous investigation indicates that IE and Netscape competed in browser's functionalities and performances. The vertical integration strategy brought about Microsoft's success in the first round of the browser war. Today, the revival of Mozilla by Firefox shows that the vertical externality is a two-edge sword that can have negative effects on IE when security becomes a more outstanding issue. In addition, the open source nature of Firefox becomes one of its critical success factors. Based on this, we can expect that the monopoly of Microsoft can be downplayed by the adoption of open source strategy in the software market.

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Mozilla Digital Memory Bank, Object #375, 23 May 2006, <http://mozillamemory.org/detailview.php?id=375> (accesed 9 April 2021)

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Title: The Revival of Mozilla in the Browser War Against Internet Explorer
Creator: Tongsen Wang (Research Center for Next Generation Internet Fujian University of Technology), Lei Wu (College of Communications and Information, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Zhangxi Lin (College of Business Administration Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX)
Subject: Browser, Open source, Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer
Description: The competition between Internet Explorer and Netscape has been one of the famous issues in the IT world regarding the phenomenon of market dynamics in the information age. Previous investigation indicates that IE and Netscape competed in browser's functionalities and performances. The vertical integration strategy brought about Microsoft's success in the first round of the browser war. Today, the revival of Mozilla by Firefox shows that the vertical externality is a two-edge sword that can have negative effects on IE when security becomes a more outstanding issue. In addition, the open source nature of Firefox becomes one of its critical success factors. Based on this, we can expect that the monopoly of Microsoft can be downplayed by the adoption of open source strategy in the software market.
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Contributor: [no contributor]
Date: 2005-08-15
Type: text
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Identifier: [no identifier]
Source: http://www.acm.org/
Language: eng
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