Re: GEEK GRRL! Episode 4

"Mel" <rrc...@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Neil Franklin" <nei...@franklin.ch.remove> wrote in message
> news:6uu...@chonsp.franklin.ch...
> > "Mel" <rrc...@hotmail.com> writes:

> > > well they passed up a lot of money... and then Netscape the company
> folded
> > > and faded out anyway...
> > Folded? Funny, they are still selling their server software (selling
> > that was allways their business model, the browsers were just to set
> > up the market for servers).
> > Faded away, only in the consumer/client market. In servers they are
> > still strong.
>
> Sure... but I guess my point was that Netscape was big... it was truly
> huge... it was _the_ way to browse the Net... now Microsoft occupies that
> position...
>
> Netscape the company is gone, swallowed up by Sun (was it?)...

IIRC, part (including server?) Sun, part (including the browser) AOL.


> and maybe
> they still sell web servers, but they are no longer leaders in anything...
> Apache is the lead web server with over 60% of the market...

A 60% to which I have been contributing since about 5 years :-).


> It would make me feel like an idiot that I didn't take Microsoft's money

I suppost ethat shows the difference between todays youngsters and and
farts like myself. We did not yet worship money.


> > > I'm all for competition with the proviso that
> > > standards are adhered to... Netscape still does not support CSS like IE
> > > does...
> > NS6 and NS6.1, and of course Mozilla (the open source NS), do support
> > CSS. I suspect 6.1 to kill off NS4.5/4.6/4.7 some time. Which would be
> > good, as those were the worst NSes.
>
> Netscape got behind because they lost the browser war... it's kind of sad...
> :-(

Other way round. They lost because they let themselves get in the
behind. Complete missmanagment.


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