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Le président d'Opera Software qui développe le navigateur Opera cherche des ingénieurs pour travailler dans le domaines des navigateurs Web, notamment dans le domaine des solutions embarquées dans les appareils nomades dont font partie les téléphones mobiles. C'est là qu'est la source de la croissance de la société norvégienne. Le blog de Michael Kanellos de CNET News.com rapporte :

Software engineers specializing in browsers seems so… 1995. But Opera Software is on a tear to sign some up.

The Norwegian software developer, which has been making browsers since the mid-1990s, is hiring. It had 128 employees in January 2004. The number has gone up to 210 and the company hopes to have “at least 250 employees” by the end of the year, CEO Jon von Tetzchner told an audience at PC Forum, a conference taking place in Scottsdale, Ariz., this week. (…)

The growth plan in part comes from the Opera's emphasis on browsers for mobile phones. Last year, 13 phones that use the company's software came out, he said. (…)

WAP, an Internet protocol created for phones, was supposed to be the standard of choice for phones, but networks are fast enough now to handle standard browsers. Price is also not an issue when it comes to Opera.

“We are dirt cheap,” von Tetzchner said. (…)

Opera got a $12.75 million from Microsoft in 2004 to head off a threatened lawsuit. Dan'l Lewin, a Microsoft vice president, was in the audience for the presentation.