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Mozilla Positioned To Grow

It’s no secret anymore that Mozilla, a veritable spin off company from the original Netscape team, is poised to run the netbook wasteland.

With many vendors looking to make the most of emerging javascript enabled desktops and ‘browser-client’ centric applications, nobody but Mozilla has the experience, design teams and momentum to really establish itself as a market leader, for what that’s worth.

Transitions from the dark horse to the market leader, especially for Open Source enthusiasts, are made much easier when Mozilla ponys up to the table with applications like Raindrop, designed as an alternative to the forthcoming Google Wave release.

Additional applications like, of course, Firefox and Thunderbird, but especially Bespin, will allow design tools that are built right into the ‘clutter’ desktop for an unprecedented level of ease, integration and customization on tomarrow’s GUI.

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