Netscape Communications Corp is taking very seriously indeed the role in which it has been cast by the likes of Oracle Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc, that of last bastian against the seemingly unstoppable Wintel hordes, and according to US PC Week, in the next month will create a new subsidiary to focus on creating software for non-iAPX-86 machines, primarily Network Computers, Personal Digital Assistants and television set-top boxes – and later in the summer, it will reveal a comprehensive strategy to position its server software and browser as a next-generation Internet-based operating system. Major new releases of our browser is a 12-month thing, chief technology officer Marc Andreessen told the paper – Major releases of operating systems like Cairo or Copland take five years, so that any developments like Java integrated into them is outdated the day the new release ships. The only difference technically between Navigator and a traditional operating system is that Navigator will not include device drivers, Andreessen told the paper.
