NETSCAPE ANNOUNCES RELATIONSHIP WITH PHYSICIANS' ONLINE TO PROVIDE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR PHYSICIAN AND HEALTH CARE INTRANET MARKETPLACE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 7, 1996) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASD: NSCP) today announced an agreement with Physicians' Online, Inc. to provide the company with Netscape client and server software for its Internet-based physician network. Building private Intranets since 1994, Physicians' Online (POL) will also utilize Netscape software to expand its development of Intranets for health care organizations. The agreement features full-service technology and development support along with Netscape Navigator client software and Netscape SuiteSpot server software. Physicians' Online is also using Netscape Commercial Applications software internally.
"The agreement with Physicians' Online allows Netscape to expand its presence in an important vertical market," said Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape. "POL will distribute our software to a major share of the physician market and provide our cross-platform, open software solutions to its many health care Intranet clients."
The Physicians' Online network is a leading, active online service for physicians. Netscape's open software provides Physicians' Online the flexibility to use its existing hardware platform and servers to convert its entire physician membership base to its new Internet standards-based network.
"Netscape's multi-platform approach allows Physicians' Online to convert our network while enhancing the health care communication solutions we offer our expanding membership base and numerous Intranet clients," commented Steven L. Zatz, MD, chairman and chief executive officer at Physicians' Online, Inc. "As the largest provider of Intranet solutions in the health care industry, this agreement is evidence of our commitment to utilize the latest Internet technologies to increase connectivity between health care organizations and the widest possible provider audience."
Physicians' Online will expand its distribution of Netscape Navigator Internet client software and will also offer the new Netscape Navigator 3.0 software to its physician members and Intranet clients. Netscape Navigator 3.0, a major release of Netscape's easy to use, powerful Internet client software, integrates new security features and a suite of Web-based applications, including electronic mail and news. Additional sophisticated software features include collaboration technology for Internet telephony and shared whiteboards and support for new media capabilities including Live3D, LiveAudio and LiveVideo. Netscape Navigator 3.0 software is available on virtually all major platforms, including Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Macintosh and Unix.
Physicians' Online, Inc. is a privately held company based in Tarrytown, NY. The Physicians' Online network provides physicians online access to medical, business and communication services in a private "member-only" network. To facilitate dialogue among physicians and advance the exchange of knowledge, Physicians' Online links physicians to colleagues and to health plans, medical associations, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and other health care organizations through private Intranets, private discussion groups and forums and customized online resource areas.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and Netscape Communication Applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live online applications. Traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "NSCP," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.
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