Netscape

__History__
In the mid of 1994, Jim Clark (the founder of Silicon Graphics) collaborated with Marc Andreessen (who just graduated from University of Illinois) to found Mosaic Communications. Mosaic Communication was later renamed to Netscape Communications. Netscape soonly became a success, it was the market leader while still in beta. It's feature-count and market share continued to grow rapidly after version 1.0 was released. It became so success due to many factors, it created and innovated at an incredible pace. New HTML capabilities in the form of "extensions" to the language were introduced. By the summer of 1005, it had as much as an 80% plus market share. You can also simply say, if you were browing the Internet at the time, you were using a Netscape brower.

in August 1995, Netscape faced a great challenge from Microsoft, with the launch of Window 95 and its own web browser - Internet Explorer. The biggest advantage of Microsoft is that Internet Explorer was free of charge. From Mid-1995 to late-1996, it was a very busy time for both company. They were releasing a new beta or final version to the public every week. But by the fourth generations of browers, Internet Explorer finially caught up technologically with Netscape's browser. In January 1998, Netscape made an announcement that their browser would be free to download from the internet, and the developement of the brower would move to an open-source process. It was a wonderful news to many internet users. But the time between this announcement, and the actual delivery of Mozilla 1.0 would be a long road (over 4 years.) The process ended up taking much longer than originally anticipated, what with the Netscape/AOL merger and the late-hour decision to integrate an entirely new next-generation HTML rendering engine.

__Growth__
Netscape was reported by one equity research as "the fastest growing software company in history," Netscape currently employs more than 2000 people over more than 17 countries. It reported revenues of $346 million in 1996, as compared to $85 million in 1995. Netscape currently has 10 offices in Europe and 5 in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, 92 of the top 100 companies listed on the Fortune 500 are Netscape customers, and Netscape's Navigator Internet client software has become the world's most popular PC application.

__Products__
Netscape's full line of client-server software is available for a variety of platforms, facilitating its integration into corporate environments. Individual companies to large domestic and even international corporations have been quick to adopt Nescape software. These companies including Chrysler, Cisco, Federal Express, Fujitsu, Siemens Nixdorf, US West and many other corporations.

The Netscape software line includes 4 families of products: Netscape software products deliver point-and-click simplicity, advanced performance, and encrypted communications to companies and individuals that want to create or access information or services on the Internet. Their products provide easy-to-use interfaces for serving and accessing multimedia information (including formatted text, graphics, 3D images, and audio and video). Netscape software also supports Internet standards (for example Java, JavaScript, HTML, HTTP, IIOP, IMAP4, LDAP, NNTP, POP3, and SMTP) and even security standards such as SSL.
 * 1) Netscape Communicator client software suite
 * 2) Netscape SuiteSpot and FastTrack servers
 * 3) Netscape Development Tools
 * 4) Netscape Commerce Applications

__Netscape Communicator__
Communicator Standard Edition, for home and small-business users, includes:
 * **Netscape Navigator:** This powerful software for browsing information on the Internet has become the world's most popular PC application.
 * **Netscape Composer:** It allows users to create and publish richly formatted HTML documents.
 * **Netscape Messenger:** Enables users to send, compose and receive encrypted, rich HTML email.
 * **Netscape Collabra:** Provides discussion capability, allowing users to share their information efficiently.
 * **Netscape Conference:** Connects people and information through Internet telephony, transfering files, shared whiteboard and chatting tools.
 * **Netscape Netcaster:** Enables push delivery of dynamic content and offline browsing.
 * **Netscape AOL Instant Messenger.** For instant communication over the web.

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