* Firefox adoption seems to work best in organizations where there is a strong emphasis on employee productivity and where employees can influence the technology that they use. It tends to be adopted in organizations that consider it a priority to stay on the leading edge of technology adoption and security updates. This article explains the different kinds of organizations in Australia and their adoption patterns. http://delimiter.com.au/2010/09/30/desktop-dictatorship-corporate-australia-still-prefers-ie/
== Marketshare in the Enterprise and Business ==
*This point is often missed in the press but it is interesting to note that Firefox market share in corporate environments appears to be pretty closely tracking with the increased use of Firefox in the general internet population. Firefox use inside many organization often starts with IT, web development teams, and engineering departments and then spreads to other departments and individual users.
Feb. 2010
Findings in this survey indidate 50% of enterprise PC have Firefox installed, and 31% of users run both IE and Firefox.
http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/ies-enterprise-resiliency-one.html
Jan. 2010
Another couple of articles and research than can be viewed in the glass 20% full/glass 80% empty context, especially in the conclusions that are drawn. But the data is interesting.
* http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143918/Microsoft_IE_s_downfall_far_fetched_says_researcher
* http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/enterprises-more-likely-to-shun-firefox-than-ie.ars
The data itself follows previous findings:
* ~20% of enterprise PCs have firefox installed
Then it adds some interesting findings that
* Almost 50% of the monitored PCs run Firefox - or I think this says 50% of usage might be attributed to Firefox.
This might be an indicator that were browsers and web use is a key part of daily work inside the enterprise, Firefox is in higher relative use. The study suggests two things that are worth more research. Its not only how many PC Firefox is installed on inside the enterprise, its which PCs Firefox is installed on. Anecdotal we hear reports of Firefox use high in IT, Web Development, and Technology areas of companies. That would match these findings.
November 2009
It is reported that IBM will make Firefox the default inhouse browser by the 2nd quarter of 2010. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5406
April 2009
Forester Study Finds Firefox Adoption grows 1.3% to 18.2% in the second half of 2008. That's just 2% less that NetApplications reported for general Firefox adoption in the overall browser market, and the 1.3% increase over the period is faster than the 1.2% increase in Firefox users that NetApplications reported over the same period.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Microsoft-IE-Tops-in-Enterprise-Firefox-and-Chrome-Gaining-Forrester-490377/
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1
July 06
Marketshare among IT workers visiting Janco
http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm
October 30, 2006
The New Browser Wars: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer
<br>http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13200C4PLUMO
"Jupiter survey showed that 26 percent of companies with more than 250 employees allowed their employees to install Firefox in 2005. By 2006, that number had jumped to 44 percent."
February 13, 2006
Deployments at IBM, Boeing and Fidelity Investments
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,108622p3,00.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;453717301;fp;2;fpid;2
14% of Surveyed IT Managers had multi browser deployments going on in there companies.
March 22, 2005
Firefox explorers
This expansive article covers the advantages of using open source and Firefox software for business. When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/21/1111253920087.html?oneclick=true
== Security ==
