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The revival of Mozilla in the browser war against Internet Explorer

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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 mainly 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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ICEC '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce
August 2005
957 pages
ISBN:1595931120
DOI:10.1145/1089551
  • Conference Chairs:
  • Qi Li,
  • Ting-Peng Liang
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  2. compatibility
  3. competition
  4. externalities
  5. open source
  6. vertical integration

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