COMMERCIAL, ENTERPRISE, AND CONTENT DEVELOPERS PLAN SUPPORT FOR NETSCAPE PLATFORM

ADOBE, APPLE, KALEIDA, MACROMEDIA, PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS ARE AMONG MORE THAN 2,000 DEVELOPERS JOINING NETSCAPE PARTNERS PROGRAM FOR CREATING LIVE ONLINE APPLICATIONS

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The Netscape Development Partners Program, announced last month, provides partners with software, tools, information, and support to make it easy to customize and add functionality to Netscape's client and server software. Netscape announced today four new products -- Netscape Navigator 2.0, Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0, Netscape LiveWire, and Netscape LiveWire Pro -- that extend Netscape's software line into a platform for applications that link people and information.

"We are seeing tremendous interest from the third-party community for developing applications for and with the Netscape application platform," said Mike Homer, vice president of marketing at Netscape. "By providing a close connection between Netscape and this community, we can accelerate the development and delivery of commercial and custom live online applications for a variety of customers within the enterprise and on the Internet."

Commercial developers creating products for the Netscape application platform include Adobe, Apple, Attachmate, Citrix, DSP Group, eShop Inc., Globalink, Iconovex, Illustra, Insoft, Intervista, Iterated Systems, Inc., Johnson-Grace, Kaleida, Macromedia, Microsystems Software, Novell, Now Software, Paper Software, Progressive Networks, RAD Technologies, Inc., 7th Level, Silicon Graphics, SoftQuad, Sybase, Template Graphics Software, Tumbleweed Software, VocalTec, VoxWare, White Pine, and Xing Technology.

Enterprise and content developers creating live content using the Netscape application platform include BASIS, CMP's TechWeb, Dimension X, Discovery Online, Dow Jones & Co., EDS, Global Commerce Link, House of Blues New Media, Internet Underground Music Archive, NBC, NECX Direct, Organic, Quotecom, Random House, Red Sky, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Graphics, The Voyager Company, Up & Running, Vivid, and Worldview Systems Corp. Those creating Java applets include Dimension X, Discovery Online, Global Commerce Link, Internet Underground Music Archive, NBC, Organic, Red Sky, Silicon Graphics, and Worldview Systems Corp.

The Netscape Development Partners Program includes the following core components:

• Regular updates from Netscape, including an electronic newsletter, e-mail notices of product or program announcements, and participation in Netscape's developer conferences
• Online technical information, including information on Netscape client and server application programming interfaces and programming with Java, standards documentation, and development tools documentation
• Technical support, including online discussion groups
• Early access to Netscape development tools, as they become available
• Discounts on Netscape software.

Partners can apply to the program via the Netscape home page at http://developer.netscape.com/. The core program will also be supplemented with optional packages tailored to various partner categories, providing more specific information and assistance for different types of businesses.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software to enable people and companies to exchange information and conduct commerce over the Internet and other global networks. The company was founded in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Fortune 500 computer systems company; and Marc Andreessen, creator of the NCSA Mosaic research prototype for the Internet. 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 , by sending email to info@netscape.com or by calling 415-528-2555.

Netscape Communications, the Netscape Communications logo, Netscape Navigator, Netscape Navigator Gold, and Netscape are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies.