IBM on the hunt for Firefox programmers

Man, things are just ‘booming’ lately! Now we have IBM going after Firefox devs in an effort to bring them over to their team. Really, it makes sense based on their current projects. Those devs can give them the information IBM needs to push forward with their projects that relate to Firefox and other browsers as well.

A job ad posted on IBM’s Web site said an emerging technologies team in IBM’s software group wants programmers for “enhancing the Mozilla Firefox Web browser with new features complimentary to IBM’s On Demand middleware stack.”

An IBM representative on Wednesday said that the ad was for one position in the company’s advanced technology group. The individual will make contributions to the Firefox project, the representative said.

The Firefox work could dovetail with IBM’s effort to build its Workplace software, which moves several personal computer applications to a server that users access with a Web browser. IBM is spending $100 million on ensuring Linux computers can tap into Workplace servers.

Among Workplace abilities are instant messaging, word processing and spreadsheet calculations. Today, IBM supports use of Workplace with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla–including Linux support with the latter. [Read the rest]