This week Oracle expanded its effort by buying Navio, a spin-off from Netscape Communications.
Jim Clark, who started Silicon Graphics and Healtheon and cofounded Netscape, was an extreme example of this type.
Netscape does not have the sales and marketing muscle to go up against these two behemoths.
Just as important, Netscape would benefit from being acquired by any of these four companies.
AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
Hatchets buried in rapid succession with its oldest, staunchest rivals: Sun Microsystems, Netscape, RealNetworks.
That year Morgan Stanley served as lead manager for the Netscape Communications IPO.
Meeker was among the first analysts to cover Dell, Microsoft, Intuit, AOL, Netscape, Yahoo!
So far, Centraal has trumped similar offers such as DirectHit, Netscape's SmartBrowsing and Netword.
To stay competitive, Netscape is having to spend more and more for each dollar of sales.
But with Microsoft's aggressive targeting of the browser market, Netscape's posture is rapidly changing.
It wasnt good news for the Germans and it certainly hasnt been good news for Netscape.
Unable to compete against Microsofts seemingly limitless resources--think of all those American doughboys--Netscape tacitly conceded defeat.
But Netscape executives were quick to dampen enthusiasm, urging analysts not to raise their earnings estimates.
There was 1995, when Netscape went public and sent Nasdaq into a five-year orbit.
After squelching an upstart Netscape in 1995-98, Microsoft basically stopped developing and improving Internet Explorer.
The designers of both Mosaic and Netscape Navigator have pointed at GNN as their inspiration.
That was the day Netscape sailed its IPO, based on numbers bracketed by parentheses.
Well, how about Marc Andreessen, who at age 23 popularized Web browsers by creating Netscape?
She joined Netscape's legal staff in 1994, soon after the browser pioneer was created.
Winifred Mitchell Baker has all the scars of the netscape-microsoft browser war of the late 1990s.
And in September Intel and Netscape invested in the leading Linux distributor, Red Hat Software.
One reason AOL bought Netscape was for the latter's expertise in directory and e-commerce technologies.
He recalls Jim Clark as one example of someone who left SGI to start Netscape.
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Perhaps because that would have meant forsaking about 90% of the market, Netscape declined.
With 7, 000 people in the field, its sales operation is ten times the size of Netscape's.
Finally, I downloaded the libc5 version of Netscape Communicator, and that did the trick.
Industry leaders fingered directly in the suit include top brass from Netscape Communications Corp.
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It merely wants Microsoft to include Netscape Navigator alongside Explorer on its Windows system.
Since going public, Netscape has also bought three other emerging firms--Netcode, InSoft and Paper Software.
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