Netscape: Rest in Peace?
- Article 58 of 77
- Information Age, December 2002
Is Netscape dead in the enterprise?
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Netscape's reliance on open source development has also caused it to lag behind IE in adopting less web-specific standards. Information Builders' Sandel says that while Netscape does support Java and XML in its latest releases, they are either not the latest versions or have bugs in their implementations that prevent them from working properly. “Since Netscape is open source, it's very difficult to talk to anyone to get corrective action. It's not like in the old days when it was a real company. There's little work done in testing. It's not a quality product.”
With little to differentiate Netscape from Internet Explorer other than its open source development process, demand for the Netscape browser is still only likely to shrink within the enterprise. Its lack of integration with the underlying operating system, different plug-in architecture, technology-lag, and lack of technical support, are just too many obstacles for software companies - and indeed IT organisations - to deal with. In short, Netscape facing extinction within the enterprise.
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