Speeding the Net - Hardcover

Quittner, Joshua; Slatalla, Michelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752810502 ISBN 13: 9780752810508

Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1998

Synopsis

Netscape is Bill Gates' most dangerous competitor. Like Microsoft in its earlydays, Netscape started off in 1994 as a bunch of young, cheeseburger-eating programmers sleeping under desks, before transforming itself into a global comm-ercial enterprise of 600 employees and sales of $81 million. The company's stock was offered at $28 a share in August 1995, but rocketed to $58.25 at the close of trading, making Netscape one of the most successful flotations on Wall Street. This book tells the remarkable story of how Netscape began, and how it emerged as the greatest challenger to Microsoft in little over 2 years.

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Review

Speeding the Net is a thrilling read, and Quittner and Slatalla revel in their storytelling. The excitement and informality of the early browse-design sessions is apparent and infuses the book with a dynamic, raucous energy. The book tells the story of the creation of the Mosaic browser, the precursor to the wildly successful Netscape Navigator. Speeding the Net presents a thorough and compelling history of the programmers and business minds behind Navigator. Along the way, the authors also place ongoing developments in context: the universality (up until the explosion of the Web) of LANs, the creation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the release of Java by Sun Microsystems. Speeding the Net is the best of all worlds: part biography, part primer on Web history and part journal of the history of an infamous and revolutionary start-up company. --Jennifer Buckendorff

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752810502
• ISBN 13: 9780752810508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272