Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox and Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browsers both continued to snare market share from Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer (IE) last month, a Web metrics company said today. According to Net Applications’ February data, both Firefox and Safari accounted for slightly larger slices of the browser pie than the month before. IE, on the other hand, slipped by nearly the same amount.

Source: Firefox, Safari back on browser attack

The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. The study of organizations in geographies around the world  including Canada and the U.S.  predict that spending in this country will likely see a compound annual growth rate of 16.1 per cent between 2006 and 2010. That’s marginally below the expectation in the U.S. and almost three per cent more than the global average.

Source: Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar