Mountain View, CA - In the wake of a copyright dispute with the Regents of the University of Illinois, Netscape Communications Corp., formerly Mosaic Communications, agreed to drop the use of "Mosaic" in its trademarks, delivered important new products and hired a president.
Jim Clark, chairman of Netscape, apparently quickly resolved a copyright dispute with the home of many of Netscape's prodigal engineers. Officials from the university have spoken publicly about how they reserve the right to the Mosaic trademark.
Now known as Netscape Communications the company last month marched on by making its new products available on time. Lead through this development by Marc Andreessen, the youthful pioneer of Netscape's technology division and the original author of NCSA Mosaic, the company is rapidly continuing with it's ambitious schedule of product delivery.
Netscape also announced the availability of Netscape Navigator and the Netsite server line, including the Netsite Commerce Server with integrated security.
Barksdale didn't take long to make some waves, and helped to close a deal with Silicon Graphics to bundle the Netsite product with SGI's new WebFORCE Internet-ready server and World Wide Web authoring tool.
Netscape Communications also announced the single-user price of its Netscape Navigator for commercial use at $39 per user. The pricing includes media and support. The Communications Server is $1,495 and the Netsite Commerce Server is $5,000 per site.
Netscape Navigator 1.0N for Mac, Windows and UNIX is available for free downloading on the Internet for academic and non-profit use, as well as for free evaluation purposes at the URL ftp://ftp.mcom.com/.
The Netsite server line includes the Netsite Commerce Server with integrated security plus the Netsite Communications Server. The Netsite Commerce Server, incorporating Netscape Communications Secure Sockets Layer based on RSA Data Security technology, is the first secure server software available for the Internet.
Available for all popular desktop environments, Netscape Navigator is a powerful and secure commercial navigator for the Internet, offering point-and-click network navigation. It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4 kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines, delivering performance as much as ten times that of other network browsers, claimed the vendor.
For more information call 1-800-NETSITE or access http://home.mcom.com/.
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