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Netscape Backing Down
by Steve Gibson, Jun 06, 2001 6:07am PDTDid anyone not see this one coming? It looks like Netscape is backing off of the whole web browser business model and wanting to focus more on becoming a .COM (Because we all know .COM is where the money is!)
``The browser is a crown jewel. However, six months from now, you won't consider Netscape to be a browser company,'' Netscape President Jim Bankoff told Reuters in an interview, referring to its early role in creating the first popular tool for surfing the Web.
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Can't anything else but:
HURRAY!
Didn't support Netscape anymore on my websites for a while now, but this should stop nag-mails i get every now and then ["hey, i got linux on a p133 with netscape and can't load your site, that's bad bad bad, blahblahblah"]
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MICROSOFT OWNS JOO!!!!!!
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I won't try to claim (in here) that the Netscape browser is not dead, but I don't think this article is sounding a death bell. Reading the article, it looks as though Yahoo chose unfortunate wording for the headline. From other articles like this from today
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/06/BU239460.DTL&type=tech
it looks as though the opposite is intended -- that AOL wants to revitalize Netscape as more than just a browser company. They are still hiring employees for browser work; nothing has changed that indicates backing away from browsers.
Hate the browser if you wish; it's one of the best subjects for good flame war potential here. But don't declare it dead (based on a headline from a company who runs a competing Web portal) without first checking for a pulse.
Opinions expressed herein are solely mine and those of right-thinking people everywhere.
at least we still have opera (who's doing very well. ibm and symbian are using opera in their embedded devices), mozilla and konqueror.
and this isnt' really a big deal anyway since netscape was using mozilla for version 6.0. they haven't done any real browser development since 4.X...
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opera roX0rs my world...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/06/BU239460.DTL&type=tech
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* MICROSOFT'D *
why not, right?
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The truth is, NS has been nothing more than leftovers coming out of the Mozilla project anyway, and it's been giving Mozilla a bad name by releasing this beta code as production. Mozilla will be the next competition to MS, it'll take awhile but it will happen.
The latest Mozilla builds are looking really nice, and it's also set to be the browser of choice on the Linux platform which is going to take over the world (starting with Asia and Europe). Dominance is in the future...
UNF
IE all the way baby
I don't care if I can never uninstall it ever again, it's still the best out there.
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