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Netscape Analysis Report Essay, Research Paper

Netscape Analysis Report

I. History

Netscape Communications Corporation, originally named Mosaic

Communications Corporation (MCOM) was founded in April 1994 by Jim Clark and

Marc Andreessen. They released their first browser products free to Internet

users in September 1994. Jim Clark is chairman of Netscape Communications

Corporation. Before founding the company, Clark was the chairman of Silicon

Graphics, a computer hardware manufacturer he founded in 1982. Marc Andreessen

is vice president of technology for Netscape Communications. He helped develop

the original graphical World Wide Web browser, Mosaic, while he was at the

University Of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain.

The Internet is a global network connecting thousands of networks by use

of high speed digital lines called ATMs, T3s and T1s. It was just being

introduced to the general public at the time of Netscape’s conception and they

would NOT have been successful if they had not had this timing advantage.

II. Location

Netscape’s corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California — in

the heart of the Silicon Valley. However, due to the nature of the global

networks its software transmits over, Netscape is able to sell worldwide via the

Internet. There are virtually no walls to its “retail outlets.” Its software

products are also distributed through computer stores worldwide.

III. Product Line

Netscape Navigator is a software program to browse information available

on the Internet. It is available for all common computer system platforms,

including 16-bit PC, 32-bit PC, Macintosh, and all UNIX systems. Navigator also

allows people to check their e-mail on the Internet through use of a password

(MIME) encoding scheme.

Netscape Server is a piece of software that installs on UNIX and Windows

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