Technology 27 Dec 2005 01:58 pm
CVS/pharmacy standardizes on Firefox browser
The nation's second-largest retail pharmacy chain, CVS/pharmacy, has opted to standardize on the Firefox web browser. This move comes as a result of chain-wide hardware updates, which means that everyone that works in a CVS/pharmacy location that accesses the corporate intranet — Internet access is unavailable — is doing so using Firefox 1.0.4.
CVS's proprietary prescription-processing software, Rx2000, runs on SCO's UnixWare, and the previous browser was Netscape 4. Along with recent hardware upgrades, their backend software was updated which included a migration to the Firefox browser.
Firefox is steadily gaining momentum in corporate circles. The migration to Firefox was likely not done lightly, as maintaining the servers of over 5000 stores is no easy task, even for a $22 billion company. Firefox is steadily gaining mainstream acceptance: Dell is pre-installing the browser on OEM machines in the UK, and the browser's popularity is steadily growing, despite occasional downturns in marketshare.
(I haven't found this story anywhere, so I thought I'd let the world know.)
on 29 Dec 2005 at 9:54 am 1.Kevin 2.0 said …
CVS standardizes on Firefox…
I haven't seen any confirmation of this, but I stumbled upon it earlier today. Apparently the CVS drugstore company is standardizing on the Firefox browser for their corporate Intranet. I can't say that I'd be surprised to see corpor…
on 29 Dec 2005 at 8:09 pm 2.Kevin 2.0 » Blog Archive » CVS standardizes on Firefox said …
[...] I haven't seen any confirmation of this, but I stumbled upon it earlier today. Apparently the CVS drugstore company is standardizing on the Firefox browser for their corporate Intranet. I can't say that I'd be surprised to see corporations find out what the general public already knows: Firefox is more functional and safer to use than Internet Explorer. I still run IE from time to time and I'm beta testing IE 7, but I only do that for one reason: because there are still websites that don't follow the W3C standards; they hacked up code to run in the dominant browser (IE) and there are rending issues in the "correct" browsers. [...]