Firefox was apparently a real "eye opener" for Fidelity Investments Inc. which has now made open source software an "anchor" of Fidelity's software strategies.
The Mozilla Firefox browser was an eye-opener, added Mike Askew, who also works in the technology center. A head-to-head comparison of Firefox and Internet Explorer showed that both had about the same level of security vulnerability, but ''the time needed to fix vulnerabilities in Firefox was much less,'' Askew said. That experience led Fidelity to look at open source more intently.I've been saying it for a while: Firefox is the "gateway drug of open source."
