Both Hot Java and Webscape seem to need a T1 connection and a RISC workstation to be usable. So the likelihood is that most of us will be using Netscape Navigator for the foreseeable future. But it is fun to think of wandering around the world in a little virtual environment with little animations of Bill Gates or Scott McNealy guiding us to their favorite Web sites.
Predictor: Alsop, Stewart
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for InfoWorld, editor-in-chief Stewart Alsop writes: ”Netscape itself is pretty much heck-bent on making sure its Navigator remains the leading browser. So it is building everything it can into its browser. In fact, I’ve heard that they are building so much into it that I expect the company to bundle an operating system. (Just joking, sort of.) … I believe that the Microsoft Network will be a casualty, as Microsoft buttons down Windows 95 to get it shipped on schedule. (Microsoft hasn’t yet announced such a thing, but it should.) … Both Hot Java and Webscape seem to need a T1 connection and a RISC workstation to be usable. So the likelihood is that most of us will be using Netscape Navigator for the foreseeable future. But it is fun to think of wandering around the world in a little virtual environment with little animations of Bill Gates or Scott McNealy guiding us to their favorite Web sites.”
Biography:Stewart Alsop has been a contributing editor and editor-in-chief of InfoWorld magazine. He later became a partner in New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, and was the executive producer of Agenda, a conference held annually for computer industry executives. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: April 11, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: Distributed Thinking – Netscape is one Big Fish
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1996/idgns.java.1995/idgns.java.1995.001.html
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