NETSCAPE'S FIRST YEAR OF PRODUCT SHIPMENTS ESTABLISHES BROAD INTERNET MARKET LEADERSHIP

70 PERCENT OF FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES USE NETSCAPE SOFTWARE FOR INTERNET AND INTRANET APPLICATIONS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (December 13, 1995) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced that just one year after shipping its first Netscape Navigator and Netscape servers, Netscape open software products are now used in more than 70 percent of global Fortune 100 companies, and have received broad support from resellers, developers and industry partners. In addition, Netscape Navigator has been one of the most rapidly adopted software applications in history, with popular Internet sites showing Netscape Navigator as the predominant client in use on the World Wide Web.

In the year since the company began shipping its first three products -- Netscape Navigator 1.0, Netscape Commerce Server 1.0 and Netscape Communications Server 1.0 -- Netscape has broadened its open software line to include four families of products: Netscape Navigator clients, Netscape servers, Netscape development tools, and Netscape Internet Applications. With its comprehensive product line based on industry standards, Netscape has achieved the following milestones:

• Garnered 70 percent of the Global Fortune 100 as customers of its client and server products -- many for internal corporate or "Intranet" applications -- including AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, MCI and Motorola.
  
• Gained 70+ percent of the market share for Internet clients, according to statistics from popular World Wide Web sites. Current estimates put the number of Netscape Navigator users at more than 15 million globally.
  
• Received more than 20 product awards for Netscape Navigator including: Information Week's Most Important Products of 1995; Interactive Age's Best of the Net 1995; PC Magazine's Editor's Choice; PC Computing's MVP and Innovation of the Year Awards; PC World's Best Buy Award; InterNetworks Standards Achievement Award; Internet World's Industry Award, and Windows Sources Stellar Award.
  
• Garnered awards for Netscape servers and tools including: PC Magazine Editor's Choice for Netscape Commerce Server and Netscape Communications Server; Windows NT Magazine Editor's Choice Award for Netscape Commerce Server; Windows NT Magazine Editor's Choice Award for Netscape Communications Server; and Networld+Interop Best of Show Finalist for Netscape LiveWire.
  
• Earned the #1 position on Ingram Micro Devices' bestseller list with Netscape Navigator Personal Edition just four months after the product's debut in the retail channel. Personal Edition, available for Microsoft Windows and Windows 95, has been distributed into 8,000 retail stores in the US, in partnership with Internet service providers Netcom, MCI, Portal, and Concentric Research. The company has also established relationships with more than 100 Internet service providers that enables them to provide Netscape Navigator to their customers.
  
• Attracted more than 12,000 development partners -- including content creators, enterprise application developers, commercial software developers and consultants -- to create content and live online applications based on Netscape's open software platform.
  
• Were selected by large customers such as Dataquest, Discovery Channel Online, Dow Jones Corporation and MCI, who are using Netscape Internet Applications as the basis for live online commerce applications.
  

"From our experience with the millions of Netscape users over the past year, we are now creating and delivering the next generation of open software products that can help meet customer needs in both the Internet and Intranet markets," said Mike Homer, vice president of marketing at Netscape. "Our expertise, products and partnerships put us in a unique position to extend our lead in the industry in creating an open platform for live online applications."

In addition to broad product acceptance, the company has developed comprehensive channels to enable its customers to purchase Netscape software in the way that is most convenient to them. The company's industry partnerships with value-added resellers, distributors, OEM partners and developers are bringing solutions based on the Netscape software platform to users around the world and assisting Netscape in increasing its presence within Fortune 500 companies. Netscape's channel successes going into 1996 include:

• More than 38 international distributors representing 29 countries.
  
• Three major distributors and more than 1,500 VARs in North America.
  
• Millions of Netscape Navigator clients and tens of thousands of servers licensed for resale and distribution through such partners as Apple Computer, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, MCI, Novell, Olivetti, Prodigy, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.

Delivered through indirect and direct channels, Netscape's complete open software line brings encrypted communications, advanced performance and point-and-click simplicity to companies and individuals who want to create or access online information services. Netscape products offer easy-to-use interfaces for serving and accessing multimedia information on the net, including formatted text, graphics, audio and video. The products are based on industry-standard protocols and are fully compatible with other HTTP-based clients and servers.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software to link people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and Netscape Internet 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.

Netscape Communications, the Netscape Communications logo, Netscape, Netscape Commerce Server, Netscape Communications Server, Netscape Proxy Server and Netscape News Server are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. NCSA Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies.