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Status: U Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 01:10:03 -0800 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Somebody Subject: Re: Netscape co-founder Clark debuts new extranet start-up At 01:05 PM 11/5/2001 -0500, you wrote: >http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/clark110501.htm > > >Netscape co-founder Clark debuts new extranet start-up > >Jim Clark, founder of Netscape and serial start-up visionary, is at it >again -- finally. > >Clark, together with the Barksdale Group, has poured $5 million into a new >company called Neoteris. It is Clark's first venture investment since the >tech downturn began a year and half ago. > >The company has worked on a shoe-string budget while in stealth mode for >more than a year. And unlike Clark's previous ventures, Healtheon and >MyCFO, Neoteris has avoided seeking market buzz until its product was >ready. Neoteris has only eaten up about a third of its venture funding. > >Today, Neoteris unveils a product called an Instant Virtual Extranet, a box >that allows people to sign on to a corporate network from any standard Web >browser. So far, the product has been tested by about 10 customers, and >it's getting rave reviews. Someone with excellent security credentials commented: - The people involved have no security background. - It's not inter-operable with anything else. - Since it doesn't run on the client you can't tell what kind of information gets leaked. - $100,000 for a box to do vpn's is a little rich. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
