DGLInfo: Netscape Products Cozy Up To Microsoft

Netscape Products Cozy Up To Microsoft
Better Integration With Installed Base Of Products

Netscape Communications has released a strategy to "embrace and integrate" various systems designed by rival Microsoft in Netscape's ONE open network environment for corporate offices.

Netscape's plans include better integration with high-profile Microsoft products such as Office, BackOffice, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Microsoft's underlying OLE/COM/ActiveX software technologies.

Netscape said its new strategy to "embrace" Microsoft was merely a public acceptance that much of the market for Netscape's products, the lucrative corporate customers, have already implemented Microsoft's products in the management of their computer systems.

Netscape introduced a new set of email and groupware products for corporate offices using the new Netscape SuiteSpot 3.0 integrated server suite and Netscape Communicator client software.

Netscape said it plans to integrate the Netscape SuiteSpot server family with key Microsoft Windows NT system services, including security, network administration and symmetric multiprocessing.

Netscape is committed designing its products to operate with the relational databases and network management systems already in use in the corporate environment..

The company committed to integrating its products with Microsoft's Office suite of applications, which will allow customers to use Netscape SuiteSpot in combinations with Microsoft's Word, Excel, and other programs.

As part of the new product announcements, Netscape said it will offer Netscape Communicator to desktop computer users so they can better communicate, share data and access information on intranets and the Internet. Communicator is an integrated product that provides email, groupware, editing, calendaring, and Web browsing, This integration will include group discussion and real-time videoconferencing.

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updated October 15, 1996
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