Please do not believe everything you read. The article in question does NOT
say that "Netscape is no longer in the Web Browser business". In that
article, what one interviewed Netscape executive says is "WE ARE *MORE* than
a web browser business", or something along these lines indicating that "the
web browser is not the only thing we do".
That is perfectly clear and has been for the last several years, even back
before the AOL/NSCP marriage, when the Netscape management tried to diversify
they revenue stream, first pushing their web SERVER business (not Iplanet
Sun/Netscape alliance) and later by creating and pushing the Netscape
NETCENTER portal business.
Netscape (an AOL-Time Warner Division) is saying exactly that: "we're more
than a web browser company", and you see their efforts now with their push
for the Netscape Netcenter services, in the form of the "Netscape bar" shown
above the Time magazine web site etc.
Netscape is Netscape is Netscape!!. It brings brand awareness to the Netscape
company, and hence, to all Netscape Products, including their portal AND
their browser.
Of course, the twisted biased writers at Ziff-Gates ^R^R^R^R^R^ I mean,
Ziff-Davis, didn't miss the chance to twist that statement and turn it into
the headline "Netscape is not a browser company".
The press (I think it was Computerworld, but I could be wrong) did exactly
the same statement-twisting dirty tricks against IBM back around 1995/96 when
they quoted IBM's OS/2 evangelist David Barnes and titled the news piece as
"Key OS/2 evangelist installing Win95" when in fact what he said in the
interview was "I am installing Windows 95, along with OS/2 and Linux, in a
multi-boot environment, OS/2's boot manager allows that flexibility".
For this reason, and a long history of biased reporting, I have registered
ZiffGates.com and plan to list their (and other media's) pro-microsoft biased
reporting I've collected over the years.
Regards
Fernando
Mustafa Hirji wrote:
> > He asked me
> > >>>if I read the recent news story about Netscape no longer being in
> > >>>the web browser business.
>
> I must have missed that article. Does that mean Netscape is dropping
> Netscape 4.xx, Netscape 6.xx, and Mozilla?
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