MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 6, 1997) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NCSP) and Diffusion, Inc., a provider of business information delivery solutions, today announced an agreement under which Netscape will resell Diffusion's Information Delivery Server software through Netscape's worldwide sales channels. Diffusion's Information Delivery Server leverages the Netscape ONE platform to easily distribute information across an Intranet or Extranet in a wide range of common business media and formats, including Netscape Netcaster, Web pages, e-mail, fax, pager, printer, or postal mail.
Built around open Internet standards and leveraging the communications services in the Netscape ONE platform, Diffusion's Information Delivery Server provides a Crossware solution for delivering business information to employees, partners, and customers in their preferred format. Crossware applications are a new breed of applications that leverage the Netscape ONE platform to span operating systems, networks and businesses to include customers and partners in business practices.
The Diffusion Information Delivery Server distributes business information from corporate information sources, including desktop applications, Web sites, or business-critical applications, to targeted recipients across the networked enterprise. Information is delivered via the medium - netcasting, e-mail, fax, pager, network printer, postal service - and in the format each recipient finds most useful. Diffusion is an immediately-deployable Extranet application that snaps into existing communications environments to improve information timeliness, effectiveness, and usability across the extended enterprise.
"An Enterprise needs to communicate to their customers through a wide range of media formats, from regular mail to Internet channels," said Mike Homer, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Netscape. "Diffusion leverages Java, CORBA, and other Netscape ONE technologies to deliver mission-critical information to customers and partners across a variety of platforms on the Internet and on Extranets."
"This relationship is a perfect complement to our business strategy; we are pleased to have Netscape as a major reseller of Diffusion," said Jim Gagnard, president and CEO of Diffusion. "Diffusion is dedicated to providing organizations with a comprehensive business information delivery solution; our relationship with Netscape is a significant opportunity to quickly reach enterprise accounts with the value of the Diffusion Information Delivery Server."
Netscape ONE embraces open standards including: Dynamic HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). The Netscape ONE platform unifies the standards of the Internet into a single platform for creating powerful, robust applications that span operating systems, networks and businesses. Netscape ONE delivers customers seamless interoperability, dramatic scalability, on-demand information access, ease of use, central deployment and management, and the capacity to deliver dynamic content - all within a global network environment.
Netscape Diffusion Server is priced on a per-processor basis. The base price for a single processor is $75,000 US. The product is expected to be available through Netscape's worldwide sales channels at the end of October.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading 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.
Diffusion Inc. was founded in 1995 to develop and market corporate information delivery solutions to address the complex business issue of effectively communicating with people across the extended enterprise. The Diffusion Information Delivery Server distributes business information from enterprise sources including the desktop, Web and application servers to targeted communities of interest - in the media and format they need. Delivery channels supported include Webcasting, Web posting, e-mail, fax, pager, printer, and the postal service. Diffusion company headquarters are located at 321 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041. For more information about Diffusion, visit its Web site at www.diffusion.com.
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Diffusion is a trademark of Diffusion, Inc.