The Mozilla Foundation has seen a 26% spike in revenue over the past year. At over $66 million in revenue the company behind the open-source web browser Firefox seems to be in good financial health.
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s chair said in a blog posting, “”The highlight is that Mozilla remains financially healthy: we’re able to hire more people, build more products, help other projects, and bring more possibilities for participation in the Internet to millions of people.”
All seems well with the world…for now. in 2005 Mozilla recieved about 85% of its revenue from Google. Some of this cash may be related to a deal the two have where Google is the default option in the Firefox search bar and Google has created a Firefox homepage for searching.
But what happens in 2008 when this contract between Firefox and Google is up? According to a FAQ page:
We have a range of options. We may continue to work with Google which has so far provided a good fit with what our users find useful in the product. If for some reason that doesn’t make sense then we could look at other potential partners. We have significant retained earnings, which allows us a good degree of flexibility.
Let’s see if Mozilla can still retain its employees and its place in the browser wars after this contract is up.
Mozilla also offers a range of other products such as Thunderbird (e-mail client) and Sunbird (calendar).
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.