Company Also Reaches Milestone With More Than 100 Million Downloads of
Netscape Browsers in Two-Year Period
Netscape Open Directory Project Surpasses 1.5 Million Web Sites
Netscape's Next-Generation Browser Available in Beta for Public Download
Within 60 Days
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Netscape Communications, a
leading Internet company and a subsidiary of America Online (NYSE: AOL), today
announced the achievement of several major milestones for its Netscape
Netcenter service and Navigator and Communicator browsers. The Company also
announced that a beta of Netscape's new, more powerful and convenient Internet
browser suite - powered by Netscape Gecko -- will be available to the public
within the next 60 days.
Netscape's milestones include:
-- The Netscape Netcenter service has surpassed 25 million registered
users worldwide, more than double the number of users from a year ago.
The increased traffic came one month after Netcenter unveiled a
redesigned homepage to help professionals better manage their business
and personal lives, offering greater ease-of-use with new tools,
enhanced daily news and business programming. According to the
December, 1999 Media Metrix report, Netcenter is the fourth most
visited Web site at-work, ahead of Geocities, Lycos, Excite, AltaVista
and GO.com.
-- 105 million copies of its groundbreaking Navigator and Communicator
Internet browsers were downloaded from Netcenter between January 1998
and December 1999.
-- The Netscape Open Directory Project (ODP), the open-source search
service maintained by the Web community at large, now includes more
than 1.5 million web sites, which are organized into more than
200,000 categories by more than 22,000 volunteer editors. The
directory was recently honored as part of the 1999 "Best of the Net"
list by About.com's Guide to Web Search, featuring the top 10 search
resources of the year.
Bob Pittman, President and Chief Operating Officer of AOL, said:
"Consumers around the world continue to make the Netscape brand enormously
popular because of its reputation for innovation and convenience. The
Netscape browsers and the Netcenter service make a real difference in business
and personal lives, and people are responding everywhere."
Jim Martin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Netscape
Netcenter, said: "Netscape is on the move. These new metrics demonstrate the
continued excitement over Netscape since it joined the AOL family and
foreshadow the even greater success we expect in the future. With the beta of
our new browser available within 60 days and other exciting developments in
the pipeline, we are energized to build on this momentum."
Among the other key achievements for Netscape since it joined with AOL:
-- Netscape built and delivered the marquee applications for AOL 5.0, the
latest version of the AOL flagship service's client software, including
Shop@AOL, AOL Search, and You've Got Pictures, as well as My Calendar,
the online scheduling program that has already been set up by nearly
6 million members;
-- Netscape has also developed, through its open-source mozilla.org
project, the Gecko browser engine that will serve as the faster,
smaller, and more flexible heart of the next generation Netscape
browser, as well as driving a wide range of Internet devices;
-- The number of users of My Netscape, the suite of rich personalization
features available to Netcenter registrants, has increased
400%; Netscape Search tripled in page views in just six months; and
Netscape Internet Keywords continues to increase in popularity with a
doubling of searches performed from the browser URL window;
-- The Sun-Netscape Alliance has successfully launched its iPlanet brand
of e-commerce applications, and has forged dozens of new relationships
with major companies such as Lockheed Martin, Cisco, IBM, Vodafone,
dr.koop.com, First Union and Vanguard. More than 7000 companies use
Alliance products to run their Internet businesses.
About Netscape
Netscape is a leading provider of software and services for businesses
that want to transform the way they create and keep customers in the emerging
Net Economy. A division of America Online, Inc., Netscape is based in Mountain
View, California. Additional information on Netscape is available on the
Internet at http://home.netscape.com by sending email to info@netscape.com, or
by calling corporate sales at 650-937-2555.
SOURCE Netscape Communications Corporation
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