A couple of weeks ago we launched our new web forum at AppGate (http://forum.appgate.com/) and I recently had a look at the web statistics. Firefox now leads with 45% against 39% Explorer users. Now I have to admit that AppGate is not the most visited web site in the world but we have some fairly interesting visitors (and customers..). One of the reasons why people visit our web site is because of Mindterm, one of the worlds most used Java SSH clients, which we give away for free for non-commercial use. You can find Mindterm users everywhere but one important user group is students..and according to our web stats they now favour other operating system then Windows. We see this trend also among our ordinary customers, from almost 100% Windows to a much more blended environment (Mac, Linux etc), which also includes mobile phones. There are probably lots of reasons for this trend but one of my customers gave me an interesting insight into the future. They reasoned that if they want to attract the new generation to come and work for them they need to have an IT-infrastructure that suited the needs of the “next generation”. That meant that handing over an "old PC" would not be sufficient in the future and talented people would go somewhere else.
From a security standpoint this is of course interesting as many security products are platform or OS dependent and to have even more point product will increase costs and decrease security. I think the future will be interesting…
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