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Putting Mozilla’s revenue in to perspective
January 05, 2007
You’ve no doubt seen the headlines about Mozilla reporting that it brought in revenue of $52.9m during 2005. This is an impressive figure, especially when you put it into perspective against a number of other software vendors.
$52.9m might be small change compared to the likes of IBM, which had revenue of $91.1bn in its fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, but it is more than the likes of Pervasive Software, NetManage, FalconStor, WebSideStory, VA Software, and the good old SCO Group pulled in that year.
According to the figures revealed by Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker, the combined expenses of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp were just $8.2m in 2005, giving the organization a "profit margin" of 84.5%, beaten only by Google, Akamai Technologies and RealNetworks in 2005.
Meanwhile, with revenue up from just $5.8m in 2004, Mozilla’s revenue growth of 812.1% was unmatched. The nearest anyone got to that was Emblaze with 522.6% growth, followed by TomTom with 274.2% growth.
It is quite an achievement given that the core product is freely available, and speaks volumes for Baker’s decision to set up Mozilla Corp as a subset of the non-profit Foundation in late 2005 “to make money if and when it's appropriate”.
Comments
I think it is pretty impressive to be able to earn this much just on a built-in Google search field in their flag ship's, the Firefox Web browser, user interface. Well done.
I wonder what Opera Software and their Web browser "Opera", they where the first to make such a deal with Google, have earned...
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