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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: damniseedemons who wrote (16645)1/23/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (5) of 24154
 
I have sunk a lot of money and time into the this browser integration stuff. Let share what I have learned.

1.) NSCP was always free to those who really wanted it for free. The announcement of giving it away is no big deal, the loss in revenues was already there.

2.) NSCP is still considerably behind MSFT in giving away the source code. MSFT has bettered this arrangement by packaging IE as an OCX, so software developers can integrate the browser, modify the browser, adn add/subtract features at will, and at no charge. The vast majority of these developers are VB programmers with C++ programmers taking up the slack. VB develoeprs are computerdom's largest contingent, and they have been at this for over a year now. That is a big head start to have on NSCP.

3.) Another advantaged is that MSFT did not have ot open up their code due to superior desing. Since IE is basically an object container and can also be embedded as an ctive X control (go to any app in the Office suite and hit insert - object, and you will see IE 3.0/4.0 as an option), the flexibility is already there. NAV simply did not have this flexibility, thus the only wasy to share the code functionality was to give it away.
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