Antes de ayer, escuche en la CNN que NetScape esta próximo a desaparecer a partir de febrero. Realmente me sorprendió ya que es un producto y una empresa que ha tenido varios inconvenientes legales con Microsoft por la pelea del mercado de Browsers.
He buscado información en Internet acerca de esto y mucho no he encontrado. Lo que hay es lo siguiente:
A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development (Michael Arrington)
Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the browser, currently on version 9.
In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated. Most of their efforts have been aimed at creating a Netscape-skinned version of Firefox with the Netscape look and feel.
La nota continua, los invito a leer la nota en el site original: A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development.
Saludos, Roberto Di Lello.