Sales from Firefox etc. in fiscal 2006 are "approximately 7.6 billion yen"

A non-profit enterprise established to support Fiefox and Thunderbird "Mozilla FoundationAccording to data released in fiscal year 2006 announced, there seems to be sales of 66.84, 850 dollars (about 7.6 billion yen). In FY 2005, it was 52.96602 dollars (about 6 billion yen), which is about 26% higher than the previous fiscal year.

Most of this revenue comes from the Firefox search bar.

The secret of that curry is from the following.
Mitchell's blog: Beyond Sustainability

In 2005 and 2006, most of the revenue comes from Google, and seems to be a contract that generates revenue every time search queries such as search bar occur. Although details of the contract are unknown, using this revenue, we paid salaries about about 90 people who are related to the Mozilla Foundation (including part), and the total expenses totaled 19,771,193 dollars (about 2.2 billion yen). , And the total assets remaining as of the end of 2006 was 74,148,881 dollars (about 8.4 billion yen). In this fiscal year we will hire more people in 2007 to raise the overall quality.

In addition, the background system that supports Firefox is also wonderful, Firefox is downloaded about 600 thousand times a day, the daily transfer amount exceeds 2.1 terabytes, and furthermore, the update request of about 25 million times each day It seems to be processing. However, there is not such a thing as to whether the server became heavy with this, rather it succeeded in raising the server response time by about 50% in 2006 in comparison with the previous year. For that reason, I also started using European data centers and so on.

Tens of thousands of people are involved in the Mozilla project at the moment and the Mozilla Foundation hired more than 1,000 people who provided code to Firefox 2 in some way, of which about 50 people. About 10,000 people are downloading everyday for nightly builds under development, and this number is increasing every day. In addition, it seems that there have been reports of various bugs from 16,000 people. And about 1,000 comments have been added to the bug tracking system each day. To keep that software quality you need about that resource ....

We also make donations, for exampleCreative CommonsHe donated nearly $ 300,000 (about 34 million yen). We are planning to make many other donations (such as open source related) in fiscal 2007.

By the way, it seems that the contract with Google, which provides most of the revenue, will expire in November 2008. What will I do ...?