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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (22278)	12/25/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith, I feel that you have named things where Netscape "embraced and extended" prior innovations. >The Web Top - using the desktop as a navigator that combines views of local and remote (Internet) resources. Microsoft ActiveDesktop was first. >Outsourcing of applications via the web through the Personal Netcenter. Outsourcing business models have been around for ages. Outsourcing IT has been around for a long long time. Putting it on the web is the the latest incremental twist, hardly innovative; even so, other web companies were outsourcing services via the web before Netscape. >Technology that allows companies to extend their information systems and services to the outside world via Extranets (I believe we invented that word) through integrating web technologies via LDAP-based Workflow, E-Commerce and other Internet and web technologies and services. I believe Netscape did coin the term, "extranet," but the extranet concept was around long before it became branded. Netscape did extremely well in implementation, but the "innovative" idea/attempts originated elsewhere (indeed, it may go back as far as the internet itself).