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...profit and has given away most of the software it has created. Not bad for Netscape co-founder Jim Clark, who, by day's end--when the stock price finally settled at a more reasonable $58.25--was worth $565 million. And not bad for fellow co-founder Marc Andreessen, the 24-year-old programming tyro, whose stake made him a millionaire 58.25 times over...
...best thing Netscape has going for it is its techies, most notably Andreessen, who, as a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Illinois, conceived the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the fall of 1992. That bit of software transformed the drab, black-and-white, hard-to-get-around-in world of the Internet into a colorful place and stimulated an explosion in new kinds of content, from Web-based magazines to online casinos. Mosaic, which is licensed by the university to customers, was also given away and gained an estimated...
...Marc Andreessen built the prototype that became Mosaic as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. He went on to found Mosaic Communications Corp. with several other Mosaic developers...
Suddenly everybody's looking for a way to cash in on Mosaic's popularity, including Andreessen. In April he teamed up with Jim Clark, former chairman of Silicon Graphics, and started a new company called Mosaic Communications. Clark and Andreessen lured all but one of the original Mosaic team to Silicon Valley for some intense programming sessions. Last week they unveiled the first result: called Mosaic NetScape, it is faster and slicker, and it allows users to pass sensitive information such as credit-card numbers safely over the network...
...effort, Andreessen's team faces stiff competition. It comes both from Mosaic look-alikes, like MCC's MacWeb and Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic, and from a slew of new programs, like Netcom's NetCruiser and James Gleick's Pipeline, that work almost as well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet...