LAS VEGAS, Nevada (November 18, 1996) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:NSCP) today announced that more than 100 companies supporting the Netscape ONE open network environment will showcase their products at Comdex - both in Netscape's partner pavilion and throughout the show floor. Those featured in the partner pavilion (booth #H422, adjacent to the Netscape main pavilion at the Las Vegas Hilton) include ACI US, Inc., Bitstream, DigitalStyle, Elektroson, IBM, Mercury Mail, Mobileware, Net-It Software Corp., Net-Scene, OpenConnect, Systems, Paralogic Corp., Progress Software Corp., Simware, UWI Unisoft Wares Inc. and Verity, Inc.
Across the Internet and Intranet development landscape, Netscape enabling technologies continue to fuel phenomenal market growth. Some of the most prominent companies in the information technology arena lead the community of Netscape ONE supporters. For example, AT &T, Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Informix, Intel Corp., Open Connect, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Sun Microsystems and Unify are among the organizations who co-sponsored the Netscape Internet Developers Conference last month in New York. In addition, Netscape recently announced strategic relationships with Oracle Corp., Lotus Development Corp. and Autodesk, Inc.
"The emergence of the Internet and corporate Intranets is fundamentally changing the way our customers work and the way we address their needs," said Carol Bartz, chairman and CEO at Autodesk. "We embrace the Netscape ONE platform to leverage our development efforts. This allows us to bring powerful design products geographic information systems to customers using the Internet and Intranets as a collaborative environment."
Netscape is working continually to improve the level of service it provides to its development partners. During the last year, the company has moved aggressively to empower its developers with a more comprehensive set of tools, technologies, information and support through the Netscape ONE Platform, the DevEdge Online Community and Netscape DevEdge programs.
"We are profiting significantly from Netscape's efforts to work with developers on both a technical and marketing level," said Jim Hamerly, president and CEO of DigitalStyle. "Netscape is committed to providing industry-leading Intranet solutions. Netscape fully realizes the importance of third parties in achieving success and continues to invest heavily to support the development community."
"Netscape is working hard to give developers a compelling a business proposition, a smooth technology adoption path and the freedom to make choices that advance their position in the market," said Danny Shader, vice president of industry and developer relations at Netscape. "Netscape's strong position in the client and server software market, along with its role at the forefront of next-generation communication and collaboration, helps developers gain a competitive edge. Because Netscape ONE is based on open industry standards, our developers enjoy the benefit of choice as they build interoperable Internet and Intranet applications."
In addition to providing development resources, Netscape is committed to fostering relationships across its developer base. The spirit of community among Netscape developers was reinforced at last month's Netscape Internet Developers Conference, where the company shared its technology roadmap with more than 3,000 attendees from 44 states and 36 countries.
At the conference, Netscape also introduced the Netscape ONE Experts program - an opportunity for developers worldwide to earn credentials that signify proficiency in building Netscape-compliant Internet and Intranet applications. Already, more than 2,000 developers have taken the first step toward Netscape ONE Expert qualification by requesting CBT System's CD-ROM-based training in JavaScript Ñ Netscape's open, freely licensable Java-based scripting language for rapid application development.
Netscape AppFoundry - an online collection of cross-platform, reusable business applications featuring the Informix online workgroup database - has distributed more than 20,000 copies of sample code and development tools, at no cost to recipients. These applications enable corporate developers to build prototypes quickly for enterprise needs ranging from order and inventory tracking, to project management and sales trend analysis. These vendors include: Arbor Software, Aurum Software, Broadvision, Dun & Bradstreet, Software, Information Dimensions, Lawson Software, OneWave, Scopus and Simware.
Netscape ONE open network environment is a standards-based platform that enables developers to create a new generation of distributed client/server applications for Intranets and the Internet. Netscape ONE unifies into a single platform of current Internet standards such as HTTP, HTML, LDAP, JavaScript and a tool chest of open, cross-platform software and technologies for creating rich, distributed Web-based applications.
Additional information about Netscape ONE and Netscape DevEdge developer programs is available through the Netscape DevEdge Online Web site, http://developer.netscape.com, at the following locations:
Netscape ONE Experts - http://developer.netscape.com/library/one/onexperts/index.html
Netscape ONE and the Netscape ONE directory - http://developer.netscape.com/one/index.html
Developers may also contact Netscape by email at devinfo@netscape.com, or by telephone at the DevEdge Hotline, 415/937-2986.
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 commercial 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.
Additional information on Netscape Communications Corporation is available on the Internet at http://home.netscape.com, by sending email to info@netscape.com, or by calling 415/937-2555 (corporate customers) or 415/937-3777 (individuals).
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