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entrevista com o co-fundador e ex CEO da Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner, podem-se ler umas coisas interessantes - 10.02.2014:
(Original em Alemão - Tradução automática)
What browser do you use anyway?
Still Opera 12
I also still occasionally, but he is aging fast ...
Yes, it's a bit like a burning ship - at some point you have to stop the machine. The interesting thing is: Of the approximately 330 million Opera users 300 million still use Opera's old Presto engine.
That would not bode well for Opera's move to WebKit.
It was the wrong move. It has apparently taken the decision at the beginning of 2010, when I stopped - at least you heard back then on to invest in the development team. You have people no longer replaced, who have left, gradually the code was less competitive. And we all know that you have to give everything when you compete against Google, Apple and Mozilla.
Many Opera users were shocked when they saw Opera 15.
We could have said: Okay, let's take WebKit, we use our resources to build a great UI. But in reality there was no people because they have ceased or have been fired. A lot of smart people have left Opera. When I stopped, about 750 people worked at Opera. Now while there are more, but over 300 people have since ceased, especially from the core team. The focus is now more on advertising and on the financial side, not in the products - and Opera was a product company.
Have you then actually voluntarily ceased as CEO?
It was my decision, but it was a long, long struggle preceded, and I was really exhausted. I hoped with Lars Boilesen there would be continuity, because he had worked as my Head of Sales, but I should find out quickly that this would not be so.
The investors wanted the company in a different direction when I draw - rather in the holding of the financial market is right , instead of trying to make the end user happy. I have fought for seven years, against their will to sell the company or to neglect the desktop browser. I left the company in a very good condition. We had doubled our user base of 50 to 100 million and continued to grow, even without new features. I am sad when I see what has happened with my company . It goes completely in the opposite direction from the one where I was going.
Do you feel that you have destroyed your life's work?
I think Opera could have achieved much more. For 2013, we had 500 million users as the target. Had we continued on our way, we would have achieved our goal. The two features that have been added since my departure, are Discovery and Stash. On the other hand a lot of things have disappeared.
Previously, we have implemented projects such as Turbo or Unite, which was a major innovation.