PARIS and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (November 12, 1997) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced that Netscape's executive vice president of products Marc Andreessen and JavaSoft's chief technology officer James Gosling will keynote Netscape's first European Developer Conference, being held in Paris at L'Arche de La Defense from December 1 to 3, 1997. Netscape also announced that Compaq Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Santa Cruz Operation and Sun Microsystems Inc. are co-sponsoring the European Developer Conference.
Netscape's Andreessen will kick off the conference by outlining Netscape's architectural strategy for enabling the Networked Enterprise. On the second day of the conference, Oracle's vice president of Systems Product Mark Jarvis will explain Oracle's role in bringing Java to the enterprise. JavaSoft's Gosling will then discuss the role of Java in enterprise Intranet development and present JavaSoft's Java strategy and future trends. In addition, SCO's director of strategic marketing Tony Baines will explain how SCO's Tarantella environment revolutionizes application deployment. Netscape president and chief executive officer Jim Barksdale will conclude the conference by addressing the company's future direction and presenting business opportunities available to Netscape developers.
"By participating in this conference, European developers will benefit from direct access to existing and emerging technologies and industry visionaries who can share their expertise in developing for the Networked Enterprise," said Didier Benchimol, vice president of Europe at Netscape. "Engineers that created such Internet standards as HTML, Java, JavaScript and SSL will also be present at this first Netscape European Developer Conference. They represent the foundation of the Netscape ONE platform and they will deliver their vision of the future."
More than 10 industry-leading companies will also support the conference, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, Apple, Progress Software, NetDynamics, Unisys and BEA Systems. Le Monde Informatique, the leading French IT weekly magazine of IDG France, will also participate as a press partner. Finally, the Netscape Partner Pavilion will feature more than 35 exhibits showcasing some of the most recent applications, plug-ins and tools supporting the Netscape open network environment for application development.
Aimed at providing IT European developers with the information and tools they need, the conference will feature three days of in-depth, interactive technical sessions. Four technology tracks and more than 45 technology sessions will educate and inform attendees on the various aspects of developing and deploying enterprise-scale Intranet and Extranet applications.
Registration for the conference is available online at http://developer.netscape.com/devcon/europe, and by telephone at +33 1 41 16 16 90. The registration fee for the complete three-day conference is US$720 if payment is received by November 12, 1997. After November 12, the fee increases to $900. Netscape DevEdge developer program members receive a $90 discount, regardless of registration date.
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