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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19194)5/17/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Sure, Keith. Netscape failed to see that browsing is actually an OS function, and as browsing
became wildly popular, browsing was destined to become part of the OS.

No, you're wrong. Netscape did know that MSFT would come after them. The Netscape strategy was never to just sit there on their browser. Even back in the early days, there was an understanding that the company could not survive on browser alone. This is evidenced by several facts:
1. Netscape kept coming out with many other products so that they could survive when the browser market bottomed out.
2. Read Netscape's vision statement as it appeared on the
company web site, circa July/August 1994:
Mosaic Communications Corporation intends to be the premier provider of open software that enables people and companies to exchange
information and conduct commerce over the Internet and other global networks. The company was co-founded in April 1994 by Dr. James H.
Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Fortune 500 computer systems company; and Marc Andreessen, creator of the original Mosaic
software for the Internet.

This statement does not even mention browsers. Moreover, it still holds up well as the current vision and trajectory of the way in which NSCP is headed.
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