Opera Browser

Age: 15 years & Counting

What it is: Web browser & Internet suite.

Market share: 2.4% according to W3C.

However, has stronger market share among mobile devices and is being utilized in games such as Nintendo DS & the Wii.

Cost: Free for PCs and Mobile phones. Not free for Enterprise use.

Surprise fact: Opera integrated Bit Torrent in their browser.

THE MOLLY HOLZSCHLAG VISIT

Interesting lady to say the least. Now I get why she is called a web evangelist. Very passionate about what she believes in. Dare I say tenacious too? I believe so. A "bit" too winded on the Microsoft angle but so would anyone with an agenda. I have yet to read on the IE support issues as per her claims, but recent articles on the internet show that Google & Digg will stop supporting IE6. A quick glance at source code from various websites includes the meta tag for IE8 so there may be some merit to her claims. Did not quite get what she does for the Opera people and did not leave the room knowing anything more than I had previously about the browser. Being a creature of habit, Firefox/IE it is for me. All in all, a good presentation....and oh...she is Definetely a name dropper!

Food for thought: America, like many other nations is a capitalistic society. With all the hype being generated about web standards and all, my question is - who stands to make money in all of this? Hmmmmm......