Thursday, November 11, 2010

Gary Kovacs appointed as new CEO of Mozilla


The giant internet Mozilla browser on Thursday named its new Chief Executive as the company prepares to battle all internet browsers. Gary Kovacs, who in the past had been working as senior Vice President at a company called Sybase now work as new CEO of Mozilla. Mozilla in a blog entry announcing the official appointment of Gary said that new CEO lead to the overall direction of the Organization of Mozilla and its products star, including the most popular Firefox web browser.


John Lilly, Mozilla outgoing Chief Executive also commented on a blog entry that Kovacs had a great interest and experience in the fields of battle of the internet and without a doubt these battle fields, will define the future of open web platforms, mobile and rich media content.


According to the blog entry, will now be the Kovac work to maintain the position of Firefox Web browser market is more competitive with each passing day. According to a study from Net Applications, popular Internet Explorer Microsoft is still in the position of Commander and dominant with a huge crossing 59.7% market share. And the latest version of IE 9 according to the analysts will give Microsoft a chance to set his foot on the market.The most recent IE9 is beta.En version the current search giant Google Chrome browser has a total of 8 per cent on the market and controls almost a small percentage, but analysts say that he is fast reaching in Mozilla Firefox, which has a 23 per cent share in the market. The next major update and the release by Mozilla is Firefox 4 that is scheduled to be released later this year.


Therefore, if we see the resumption of Kovacs, is quite impresionante.Además be an Executive of SyBase, has also been the general manager and vice President of mobile and devices Adobe Systems.He also worked as a marketing executive at macromedia;It has also been part of Giants IBM where he worked on the Division of IBM's global software engineering.


Mozilla has been looking for a new CEO for quite some time and it seems that Gary is a good selection. in May of this year, the President of Mozilla Mitchell Baker announced that John Lilly will resign after a few días.Mozilla also plans to hold a series of conferences and events, worldover so developers can interact with new CEO of the company and plan for future improvements.

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