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Cisco and Ford Motor Co. have Committed to Netscape Directory Server
InternetWeek, April 15, 1999
"Netscape Directory Server, the only directory that natively supports the standard security and data exchange capabilities in LDAP version 3."
 

 
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Netscape SuiteSpot
LDAP Directory Integration Drives SuiteSpot 3.5
InfoWorld Electric, March 16, 1998
"By having the entire product line available on a single, consistent release, I was able to get the main services up and running quickly."
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Netscape SuiteSpot
PC Magazine Online, February 13, 1998
"SuiteSpot stands out like a lighthouse in a storm."
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Netscape Enterprise Server
Netscape Enterprise Server Wins Network World Review
Network World, February 15, 1999
"Netscape Enterprise Server emerges as our Blue Ribbon Award winner simply by performing all tasks well."
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The Best of 1998
PC Magazine, January 5, 1999
"More than just software for delivering Web pages, Web servers are also application platforms. Nowhere is that more evident than in the power of Netscape Enterprise Server Standard Edition 3.5.1, which combines innovative features with strong performance and wide availability."
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Netscape Has the Highest Satisfaction as a Vendor
Creative Networks, Fourth Quarter 1997 Market Report
"Netscape customers rate them highest in vendor related issues, followed by Microsoft and Lotus, as shown in the [Executive Summary]. Lotus did more poorly as a vendor than in terms of its products' technical attributes, due primarily to technical support. Microsoft, by contrast, fared quite a bit better as a vendor than it did for its product's technical attributes."
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Enterprise Server Wins PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award
PC Magazine Online, May 5, 1998
"Netscape Enterprise Server Standard Edition 3.5.1 provides the best mix of features, usability, and performance for the broadest array of Webmasters."
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Netscape Calendar Server
Netscape Gets Its Calendar (Server) in Order
PC Week Online, July 21, 1997
"Administrators and users alike will benefit from the improved management and remote access tools that are the hallmarks of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Calendar Server 3.0."
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Netscape Certificate Management System


Netscape Certificate Server
Server Will Put Sites in Charge of SSL Security
PC Week Online, January 29, 1997
"Netscape Communications Corp.'s Certificate Server will let companies anxious to safeguard intranet transactions stop waiting in line for SSL certificates and start taking matters into their own hands."
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Netscape Collabra Server
Netscape Server Promotes Discussions
InfoWorld, June 23, 1997
"By combining its News Server and Collabra Share products, Netscape has delivered a truly enterprisewide collaboration and discussion group product."
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Netscape Compass Server
Compass Server Wins Internet Computing's Net Best Award
Internet Computing, February 16, 1998
"Compass Server 3.0 was easy to set up and use. It was by far the most configurable package we tested, allowing easy access to every feature and setting. . . . With its outstanding administration interface and wealth of search features, it's a great choice."
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Netscape Delegated Administrator


Netscape Directory and Security Products
PKI to Get Kick-Start From Netscape
PC Week Online, January 19, 1999
"Netscape will tout the directory as the platform on which to build a PKI, which in turn is used for extranet security and electronic commerce applications, said officials of the Mountain View, Calif., company. Since directories are already being deployed for user management, adding a PKI to the data store would require little extra effort and reap great benefits, officials said."
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Netscape Updates Directory, Security
CNET News.com, January 18, 1999
"'We think of ourselves as more of an e-commerce security vendor,' said Karen Horwitz, Netscape senior product marketing manager. 'We offer a lot more options. Most e-commerce applications do not use digital certificates; most still use user names and passwords. We see the need for a more flexible range of security options.'"
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Web Security Improves - Netscape, Others Tap Public-Key Infrastructure
InformationWeek, January 18, 1999
"Netscape's products are part of the booming public key infrastructure market. Revenue from PKI apps is expected to top $1 billion by 2003, according to UBS Securities Inc."
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PKI Heads for Mainstream
InternetWeek, January 18, 1999
"'As e-commerce sites become advanced and people start managing their personal accounts online - and that day is coming soon," demand for PKI security will increase, Guido said. To prepare for that day, AIG has adopted a directory-based approach to security, deploying Netscape Directory Server 3.0 as a central data repository for extranet applications used by 20,000 brokers throughout North America."
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Netscape Directory for Secure E-Commerce


Netscape Directory Server
Cisco and Ford Motor Co. have committed to Netscape Directory Server
InternetWeek, April 15, 1999
"Netscape Directory Server, the only directory that natively supports the standard security and data exchange capabilities in LDAP version 3."
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Netscape Ramps Up Its LDAP Server
PC Week Online, February 8, 1999
"With the release of Directory Server 4.0, Netscape Communications Corp. adds both form and function to its venerable LDAP server, making it a must-have for companies setting up high-volume extranets."
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Netscape Bolsters Solid LDAP Server
InfoWorld, January 25, 1999
"Among the most obvious improvements is Netscape's new administration console. Although I am not very fond of Java-based administration tools, Netscape Console is one of the best."
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Netscape Directory Server Wins Crossroads A-List Award
Open Systems Advisors, January 4, 1999
"Some customers saw the Directory Server strategically, as the first step toward an intranet or extranet vision. Others saw it tactically, as a necessary chore to replace a non-Y2K-compliant system."
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Netscape, HP Add Vendors
Internet Week, October 26, 1998
"'There's a natural fit between security services and directories. Everyone [vendors] is at some stage of integrating these two functions,' said Phil Schacter, an analyst at The Burton Group Corp."
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Directories in the Limelight
Network World, March 9, 1998
"After years as a supporting player in network operating system (NOS) administration, directory services are making the leap to the bigger management stage, ready to play the leading role in policy-based management."
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LDAP Version 3 Wins PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award at Comdex
PC Week Online, November 1997
"With the superbly designed LDAP Version 3.0 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) the global directory is one step closer to being a reality."
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Insurer's Mail System Hits the SuiteSpot
PC Week Online, November 17, 1997
"We didn't want to be chained to a proprietary system, as we had been with the mainframe," said Ferrell Wiley, network systems engineer at the operations center for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, in Columbus. "We'd rather use current standards than build gateways to convert a proprietary format. We would be less bound to a particular product down the road, and we could move from one client to another."
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Netscape Messaging Server
Verio To Use Netscape Messaging Servers
InternetWeek, February 17, 1999
"Verio will deploy the Netscape Messaging Server, Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Delegated Administrator software. In combination, the products will let Verio customers work in virtual offices and send e-mail from any Web browser."
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Netscape Internet Messaging Wins Crossroads A-List Award
Open Systems Advisors, January 4, 1999
"Netscape Internet Messaging customers...share a vision that email and collaboration are as essential to business as the telephone. It should be as open, as ubiquitous, as interconnected, as reliable, as manageable, as secure - and as affordable."
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Serving Your Own Email
ZD Internet Magazine, October 20, 1997
"Whether you're looking for simple mail capabilities or more sophisticated services, Netscape Messaging Server, part of SuiteSpot, is a standout. Because of its tight integration with SuiteSpot, users benefit from Messaging Server's rich feature set, and its scalability makes it a good choice for environments of all sizes."
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Netscape Meta-Directory
Netscape Preps Meta-Directory - Developer Offers Links to Email, Databases
InternetWeek, January 18, 1999
"Analysts said Netscape could quickly become a dominant supplier of directories. Netscape has added 50 million end-user licenses of its Directory Server 3.0 in the past six months, counting American International Group (AIG), Bell Atlantic, Compaq and Lehman Brothers as new customers."
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Netscape Opens Up PeopleSoft Apps
Network World, November 3, 1998
"First Netscape brought Web information to the outside world with its groundbreaking Navigator browser. Now the company is rolling out two new applications intended to do almost the same thing for data contained in PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications."
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Netscape Process Manager
Netscape Tools Take Work Out of Workflow
PC Week Online, August 31, 1998
"Netscape's Process Manager, which ties workflow capabilities to the company's central Directory Server, will make it easier for organizations to deploy basic workflow applications and incorporate external participants via Web browsers."
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Netscape's Web-Based System Aims to Ease Workflow Computerworld, August 14, 1998
"Netscape Communications Corp. yesterday unveiled Process Manager 1.0, a new product designed to help companies create and manage workflow applications that can be used over extranets."
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Netscape Automates Paperwork
Wired, August 13, 1998
"Netscape Communications is expected to unveil a new line of software products on Thursday that lets companies more easily manage cumbersome business tasks like contract negotiation and bidding."
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Netscape Aims to Automate Extranet Apps
Computer Reseller News, August 12, 1998
"Netscape Communications Corp. is aiming to extend the convenience and efficiency of intranet work flow applications out to partners and customers via the Internet and a browser."
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Netscape Delivers Extranet Collaboration Tool, Newest Directory
InfoWorld Electric, August 12, 1998
"Netscape on Wednesday announced a new collaboration product designed to spur the benefits of extranets by allowing separate companies to share and adapt to each others' processes."
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Netscape to Unveil Process Manager Workflow App
PC Week Online, August 12, 1998
"Netscape Process Manager 1.0 enables developers to quickly build, deploy and manage Web-based workflow or business process applications - such as a contractor management system, job bidding application or negotiation system - via a graphical, drag-and-drop development architecture."
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Netscape Intros Workflow Product for Extranet
InformationWeek, August 12, 1998
"Netscape will introduce tomorrow a new workflow offering for companies that want to automate certain paper-based processes by moving them to extranets connected to their business partners."
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Netscape Proxy Server


Netscape Security Services


Netscape FastTrack Server
FastTrack 2.0 Wins Datamation's 1997 Product of the Year
"FastTrack 2.0 got the nod from readers, many of whom are looking for a quick, low-hassle way to put their businesses up on the Internet."
 
Netscape Application Builder
Better Business Builder; Application Builder Adds Development, Legacy Tools
InfoWorld Electric, December 7, 1998
"This integrated development tool bodes well for the rapid creation of Web-based business applications to be deployed to Netscape's Application Server."
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In Upgrade of Application Builder, Netscape Works on Integration
Internet World, September 28, 1998
"In the past the tool was just a collection of things. This looked a lot more integrated, sort of like [Symantec's] Visual Cafe for Java."
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Netscape Debuts Application Builder 3.0
Inter@ctive Week, September 23, 1998
"Netscape Communications Corp. made headlines last December when it acquired application server start-up Kiva Software Corp. for $179 million. Now, it is filling the advanced Netscape Application Server with tools that make its services easier to use."
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Netscape Unwraps Updated Development Tool
Sm@rt Reseller, September 22, 1998
"A key enhancement to the product upgrade is the inclusion of wizards that automatically build numerous application components, eliminating some of the coding legwork."
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Netscape Boosts App Server Tools
Internet Week, October 5, 1998
"Netscape's tools are good. It puts them in the class with a Bluestone or a NetDynamics,' said Anne Thomas, an analyst at the Patricia Seybold Group."
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Netscape Application Server
(Formerly known as KIVA Enterprise Server)
Netscape Building PeopleSoft App Server
Sm@rt Reseller, October 30, 1998
"In its ongoing plan to increasingly tie products with enterprise resource planning (ERP) wares Netscape Communications Corp. will announce Monday its intentions to build an application server with PeopleSoft compatibility."
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Netscape Building PeopleSoft App Server
PC Week Online, October 30, 1998
"Netscape application server for PeopleSoft app will come bundled with Netscape's Web server, PerLDAP tools and Netscape's directory server."
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Netscape to Unveil Software Package for PeopleSoft ERP
InfoWorld Electric, October 29, 1998
"NAS for PeopleSoft enables customers to scale their enterprise applications to the extranet for exposing internal business processes via the Web to corporate customers and partners."
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Netscape Readies PeopleSoft App Server
CNET, October 28, 1998
"Six weeks after announcing a version of its Application Server for SAP, Netscape Communications will announce next week a version of its Application Server for PeopleSoft applications. Designed to help PeopleSoft users build extranets with partners, suppliers, and customers, the new Netscape products will help integrate PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with Internet applications."
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Netscape Tests Server, R/3 Bundle
CNET, September 17, 1998
"Netscape Application Server for R/3 enables companies to develop, deploy, and manage business Internet-based applications that work with SAP business software."
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Netscape Offers SAP Integration
Computer Reseller News, September 15,1998
"Netscape Application Server for R/3 server software enables users to build and manage business critical Internet-based applications that integrate with SAP R/3 applications."
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SAP to Extend ERP Empire With Major R/3 upgrade, Netscape Pact
InfoWorld Electric, September 12, 1998
"Netscape will extend its Application Server to support R/3. The company will follow up late this year with an SAP-specific version of its Application Server that will include development tools."
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A Web Application Engine for the Enterprise World
Network World, April 13, 1998
"Compared with applications on standard Web servers using Common Gateway Interface (CGI) running on the same hardware, it offered much lower response latencies and higher throughput."
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Internet World Industry Awards Winners Announced
InternetNews.com, March 11, 1998
"This year's winners have truly made a difference and continue to set the standard of excellence for the whole Internet industry."
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Netscape's KIVA Solution Is Rock Solid
InfoWorld, Janurary 26, 1998
"This release of Netscape's KIVA Enterprise Server puts the product ahead of the competition. It's an excellent solution for those who need highly scalable and reliable application services - especially in high-volume, transaction-based environments."
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Netscape SuiteSpot Hosting Edition
Netscape Pushes Internet Hosting Initiatives
InfoWorld Electric, September 29, 1998
"Messaging Server 4.0 Hosting Edition acts as a backbone for ISPs to offer value-added services such as Web-based e-mail, unified messaging, hosted intranets, and business-to-business Internet commerce."
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TELSTRA and Netscape Join Forces
Melbourne's The Age, September 29, 1998
"TELSTRA Big Pond, the Australian telco's Internet arm, will team with Netscape Communications to offer advanced messaging and hosting services in a staged rollout over the next six months."
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Netscape Outsourcing Woos ISPs
CNET, September 28, 1998
"The key component is Netscape Messaging Server 4.0 Hosting Edition (formerly code-named TroopersISP), which is being upgraded for greater scalability and performance as Netscape bids to provide the infrastructure for ISPs and phone companies to outsource applications used in e-commerce."
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Netscape Factors ISPs Into Messaging Equation
InfoWorld Electric, September 21, 1998
[According to Tim Sloane, analyst at Aberdeen Group, in Boston,] "Netscape's advantage is its comprehensive solution that integrates mail with directory services and other key components."
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How Suite It Is to Service
Techweb News, September 23, 1997
"Hosting services are a marvelous new opportunity for telcos," said Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale. "We think [hosting services] will change the way people look at intranet deployment for small and medium-sized businesses."
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Netscape Dials Up Telcos
CNET, September 23, 1997
"Netscape's enhanced server software ... will allow telephone companies to offer electronic mail, Internet access, and discussion groups. The companies will be able to filter out junk email and create powerful new directories, and corporations will be able to improve their intranets."
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Netscape Offers ISPs and Telcos Web Hosting Solutions
ZDNet, September 23, 1997
"The net result," said Barbara Ells, an analyst with Zona Research, "is small companies have a chance to try the Web with no capital expenditures to see if there is a return on investment."
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