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News.com Netscape readies new browser, wins development support
"All but trounced by Microsoft in the browser wars, Netscape Communications has long harbored a plan to regain dominance through its Mozilla open-source development project, promising revolutionary new technology to tap into the Web.

Such pronouncements have been long on hype and short on delivery, but now the company's efforts appear to be gaining respect.

Netscape today announced that it will deliver a test version of its long-delayed Web browser within the next 25 days. Perhaps more significantly, the company said that numerous partners have agreed to develop hardware and software products to support its Gecko technology for displaying text and graphics on the Net."

The New York Times Netscape Browser Faces a Changed World
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"...even as Netscape touts a series of features and technological improvements in the new browser, just as it has in years past, the entire field of the battle has changed under America Online."

As an independent company, Netscape's strategy was to use the browser to build a base of users that would help sell the server software that corporations use to create Web sites. In contrast, America Online, which has farmed out Netscape's server business to a joint venture run by Sun Microsystems called iPlanet, sees the browser as the key to a series of interactive consumer services.

So it is no surprise that many of the new features of the browser tie to America Online's strengths."

ZDNet The Rise and Fall of Netscape
"When Netscape employees first heard their company was going to be bought by America Online in November 1998, they worried whether their dogs would still be allowed in the office. A year and a half later, the dogs are still allowed, but little else is the same. Key executives and engineers cashed in their options and left, and the company that once was synonymous with the Web itself -- the pioneer of the Net as we know it -- is now merely the "at-work" arm of AOL's multi-brand media strategy.

"The merger has been a disaster," said Michael Cusumano, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-author of "Competing on Internet Time," which details Netscape's struggles in its now legendary browser war against Microsoft. "All the best engineers and managers have left. Sun has taken over the client software. ... They're no longer a player." "

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Well, no, blogger, you're not. And therein lies your gift. Because even if it's true the vast majority of blogs would not be missed by more than a handful of people were the earth to open up and swallow them, and even if the best are still no substitute for the sustained attention of literary or journalistic works, it's also true that sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.

...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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