There are no guarantees that Mr. Andreessen, Netscape’s vice president of technology, will be able to retain his position among the Valley’s very wealthy. Netscape has yet to see any profits from its hot product — a software program that permits easy retrieval of text, images and sound through the Internet’s World Wide Web.
The software, called Netscape Navigator, is derived from the Mosaic program that Mr. Andreessen conceived while an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,while working part time at the university’s National Center for Supercomputer Applications. But while Netscape so far is the most popular Web browser, the university has licensed the underlying Mosaic technology to other companies, including Spyglass.
Spyglass so far ranks far behind Netscape in the Web-browser market. But that could quickly change. Spyglass’s browser will be included in the Windows 95 operating system that the Microsoft Corporation plans to release on Aug. 24. The new Microsoft Network, which goes on line the same day, is configured to work with the Spyglass browser.
” The New York Times August 14th 1995 http://nyti.ms/ehRKOU
