Firefox seeks Chinese market share to turn over times, cry to Microsoft hard board
February 25, 2008
26 days of messages occupy DoNews 2 month coverage of Hong Kong media, development opens the Mozilla firm of source browser Firefox, the hope is had in Chinese market this year rate break up on one time at least. Firefox is Microsoft IE browser besides, the market has the network browser with top rate, and Chinese makings will make the world’s biggest Internet market.
Beijing of Mozilla China subsidiary is sought wisdom network company president holds presiding apparitor concurrently (CEO) when Gong Lizhou accepts a road to be interviewed fully, express, this California company anticipates this one process will be very difficult, because Chinese consumer does not have the existence that notices open source software on quite old rate, and the enterprise serves his to be based on IE browser completely normally.
Gong Li says, seek wisdom the network has about 4.5 million groovy user in China at present, ever assumed office before him at Sun Microsystems, and the MSN branch with subordinate Microsoft.
“Increase our market share to the whole world average level (about 20 ％ ) , it is an enormous challenge, because the service of a lot of enterprises of Chinese is a building completely,go up in IE platform, ” his complement says.
“5 ％ are insufficient still, but this is us this year the target of second half of the year, ” palace force complement says. The market share that this company is in China at present is 2 ％ about.
Seek wisdom the network is through contributing money and gain income with the correlation of tripartite, for example last year the collaboration of second half of the year and Baidu, built-in in browser of Chinese edition Firefox Baidu searchs engine.
“Our main advantage is to provide creativity more, can more agile transition. After Microsoft defeats Netscape browser, its are inside browser domain, quite inside time did not add any new things basically, ” Gong Li says.
He expresses, just of this kind of nonfeasance gave Firefox the chance of try hard to catch up, serve through offerring more individuation for its by user be fond of, promote its welcome rate.
Open source software allows the masses to be used freely, revise reach share, the software that owns intellectual property with the company such as Microsoft is different. Microsoft is bound in its Windows operating system by assail all the time program.
But be in China, it is extremely OK that the widespread presence of pilfer edition means most customer low price acquires the software that has intellectual property protection, the applied space that waits for open source software like Firefox is relatively contractible.
Gong Li expresses, seek wisdom the network will continue to seek a partner in China, the hope can achieve balance of profit and loss inside 3 years of two time.
Report said Xinhua News Agency recently, at present Chinese netizen already amounted to 210 million, be next to American market. Believe netizen number of China will make the whole world this year the biggest. (Fu Qingyi)
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