Ka-ching! Mozilla banks the Google bucks
Millions in revenue reached the Mozilla Foundation, thanks to their search box and its default engine, Google.
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s CEO, brought out the numbers on her blog. Firefox and company are doing quite well and feeling healthy, thank you very much:
Mozilla’s revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation) for 2006 were $66,840,850, up approximately 26% from 2005 revenue of $52,906,602. As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google. The Firefox userbase and search revenue have both increased from 2005. Search revenue increased at a lesser rate than Firefox usage growth as the rate of payment declines with volume.
Mozilla expenses for 2006 were $19,776,193. Expenditures remain highly focused in two key areas: people and infrastructure. By the end of 2006 Mozilla was funding approximately 90 people working full or part-time on Mozilla around the world. Expenditures on people accounted for roughly 70% of our total expenses in 2006. The largest concentrations of people funded by Mozilla were in California, Tokyo, Toronto, and Paris.
According to Mozilla’s audited financial statement, search royalties contributed over $61.5 million in revenue. With the right business model and partners, open source can be a nice business. It certainly helps having Google’s hefty wallet on tap, too. Good stuff, Mitchell.
Via Mitchell’s blog
Quite interesting, really firefox is going on well as you said, which is the best and developing browser now a days…