http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/07/28/operas-prospects/ A Canadian Take on the Web Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:40:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.markevanstech.com/2005/07/28/operas-prospects/#comment-436 Blogger_Brent Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:29:22 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=786#comment-436 Opera seems to think it can play the browser wars with Micorsoft and Mozilla. Interestingly, two Canadian companies had competitive offerings to Opera and chose different paths to market using different manifestations of the microbrowser... Espial in Ottawa moved away from wireless devices and into set-top boxes and other consumer internet devices. They have enjoyed some success there and have revenues in 8 figures now, I'm told. Icesoft in Calgary bought the ICEbrowser from Wind River in 2002, which in turn had purchased a Norwegian company that came up with the technology. They don't sell to the device guys at all... the ISVs and large companies with Java apps love the ICEbrowser for control of the client end. The company just blew away the folks at JavaOne with their clever next generation client technology. Opera seems to think it can play the browser wars with Micorsoft and Mozilla. Interestingly, two Canadian companies had competitive offerings to Opera and chose different paths to market using different manifestations of the microbrowser… Espial in Ottawa moved away from wireless devices and into set-top boxes and other consumer internet devices. They have enjoyed some success there and have revenues in 8 figures now, I'm told.
Icesoft in Calgary bought the ICEbrowser from Wind River in 2002, which in turn had purchased a Norwegian company that came up with the technology. They don't sell to the device guys at all… the ISVs and large companies with Java apps love the ICEbrowser for control of the client end. The company just blew away the folks at JavaOne with their clever next generation client technology.

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