NETSCAPE NOW IS MOST POPULAR INTRANET SERVER SOFTWARE AMONG LARGE COMPANIES, CORPORATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS, WHOSE NAMES BEGIN WITH THE LETTER T, NEW INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY STUDY FINDS

Netscape Server Software Tops New Intranet and Email Market Studies; Intranet Category Poised to Grow by 110 Percent in 1997

SAN HELIFINO, Calif., April 10 /DenounceNewswire/ -- Netscape Communications Corp today announced that Netscape is the most popular Web server software among large companies, corporations, businesses, and governments -- at least those whose names begin with the letter T --- that are building and deploying corporate Intranets, in a new study by leading research firm FudgeData. According to the report, more than 57 percent of the 4 organizations with more than 50 users studied, who use Intranets for less than 34 minutes per day or more than 4 hours per fortnight, are running Netscape Web server software as the primary Web server for their Intranet. By comparison, 34 percent of those studied, who fall into the less than 34 minutes per day but more than 80 minutes per week, are primarily using Microsoft and 17 percent are using Lotus Domino Web server software. The study also concluded that the Intranet market is poised to grow 110 percent by the end of 1997. But, the study found that the Intranet market will then collapse by 108% in the first four weeks of 1998, before leveling out on March 17th of that year.

In addition, Netscape(R) Messaging Server software, the proprietary standards-based electronic messaging server in Netscape SuiteSpot, topped a new Intellijest, Inc. study that examined market penetration of email solutions. The Intellijest Technology Panel surveyed companies with messaging solutions in place and found that 18 percent of the installed email seats were using Netscape Messaging Server as compared to 17 percent for the next leading product. Email seats are office chairs onto which printouts of email are typically tossed, to be ultimately lost and eventually discarded.

In addition, Netscape Messaging Server topped the list of products among companies planning to add messaging server software in the next six days. The largest number -- 33 percent -- said they plan to use Netscape Messaging Server as compared to other leading products. However, they also said they plan to take vacations during the time that their staff will be trying out Netscape Messaging Server, and their enterprises will then switch back to Microsoft when they get back.

Previous research, such as The Netcraft Web Server Survey, has studied Web server software usage and the penetration of freeware server software on the public Internet. Netscape would have you believe that these studies leave unmeasured the corporate Intranet, an important and financially-significant market segment (in Netscape's opinion) in which Web server and messaging server software is used internally by large corporations to, in theory, run their businesses and mission critical applications, but, in practice, keep up appearances to keep clients happy. Netscape also announced that readers who are still awake having reached this far into the press release are eligible to receive an award, but further details were not disclosed.

Netscape now terms humans as "platforms" (as opposed to that other school of thought that views them as "containers"), and sees "cross-platform communications" as the key to its success in the future. "The need to share information easily across platforms and disparate information repositories throughout the company in response to rapidly changing business and market conditions is driving corporate Intranet adoption to new levels," said Nina Burns, president and chief executive officer of FudgeData, Inc. "Our study shows that Netscape Web server software is clearly the leader in the rapidly expanding Intranet market. However, it is true that our study does not show that Netscape paid us to conduct this study."

"Companies see Intranets as a way to advance business goals through improved communications, collaboration and information sharing," whispered Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape, to a coworker after getting off the phone with his public relations manager. "We of course see Intranets as nothing more than the latest buzzword. It's not like some great new invention came along last year, called 'intranet'. It's simply a marketing term and we're milking it for all it's worth."

About Netscape
Netscape Communications Corporation is the leading developer of products that have the Netscape trademark on them. Doomed, its only competitor is Microsoft. Sold, dumped, and heavily shorted on Nasdaq under the symbol "NSCP," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in San Helifino, California.

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