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Technology Stocks : Netscape -- Giant Killer or Flash in the Pan? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jay R. Kellett who wrote (2688)	4/6/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4903

The average compiler price ranges from $0 (gcc), to a few hundred for something like CodeWarrior or Microsoft Visual Stuff, to several thousand dollars for a team-based compilers with fancy management systems. Most of the hackers on Netscape's code probably already have a compiler, and very few of them will be teams. From the message boards, I would guess that somewhere between 500 and 10,000 people are playing with the code, 90% of whom already have their own compiler. My guess is not more than a few hundred and certainly not more than a thousand compilers will be sold just so that people can play with the Netscape code. That comes out to certainly under a million dollars in increased compiler sales. By the way, I've been following the message boards for the browser development. I've already seen several improvements and many bugfixes. Considering that it can take months to understand someone else's code, it's actually amazing how quickly people have taken to the code and are working on it. This is going to be a big win for Netscape, and non-developers simply don't realize it now.