19 Juli 2005

Netscape: sejarah gila browser yang membentuk internet seperti yang kita kenal sekarang.

Bagaimana teknologi dan aplikasinya serta juga pasar yang menunjangnya, baik dari sisi pengguna maupun pembiayaan. Tulisan yang komprehensif dengan gaya yang menarik, bisa menampilkan dengan kuat peran berbagai orang yang berperan. Banyak hal bisa dipelajari dari kejadian ini, lahir dan meledak serta kemudian mati. Atau justru sekarang ini dalam berbagai titisannya sesungguhnya Netscape masih hidup?





Fortune.com: "All that happened just ten years ago. In the following pages, we capture the voices of the IPO's primary players as well as those of people who had bit parts. They reveal how Netscape founder Jim Clark initially was focused on anything but the Internet; the unique blend of Gen X technologists and seasoned managers that became a template for so many of the dot-coms that followed; and the surprise of the IPO itself—even Netscape's investment-banking firm, Morgan Stanley, didn't appreciate what it had wrought.

As engineer John Giannandrea (employee No. 18) memorably observes, Netscape brought the world Internet time, which whirls much faster than reality's clock. Iconic and brilliant, yet deeply confused as a business, the company rocketed from birth to huge acclaim to oblivion in fewer than five years ..."

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