Netscape
(Netscape Communications Corporation, Mountain View, CA, www.netscape.com) Part of America Online (AOL), Netscape specializes in Web software, including the Netscape Web browser. Founded in 1994 by James Clark, former patriarch of SGI, and Marc Andreessen, who, along with Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser at the University of Illinois, Netscape quickly became the number one topic of conversation as Internet and Web fever enveloped the nation in the mid-1990s. Netscape seriously impacted the status quo. Igniting dot-com fever, it reached a market cap of $2 billion so fast that it became the most successful public stock offering in history. It also caused Microsoft to restructure its entire product line to become Internet compliant. In record time, Microsoft responded with its own browser that it gave away free and then built into Windows 98. As a result, Netscape was forced to make its browser free, all the while watching its market share dwindle as Microsoft's leverage made Internet Explorer (IE) the dominant on-ramp to the Internet. The Netscape browser was one of the main issues in the Microsoft antitrust trial, during which Netscape was acquired by AOL.
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