If you believe, as we do, that the Internet is intended to be both a worldwide inter- and intra-corporate network, then its specifications need also to be platform-independent.
Predictor: Clark, Jim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Red Herring magazine, Alex S. Vieux interviews Netscape CEO Jim Clark in Madrid, Spain, at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. Clark says: ”If you believe, as we do, that the Internet is intended to be both a worldwide inter- and intra-corporate network, then its specifications need also to be platform-independent. Ideally, you want the protocol processing standards, or browsers, or voice recognition systems, or whatever, to be independent of Windows, or the Mac OS, or UNIX. As you know, networks are by their nature heterogeneous, so all the different platforms on your network need to be able to speak to each other. It is not our plan to force you, as a user of any of our products, to use the Windows desktop, or Windows NT as a server, for example. So when we sell to the corporate world, where most of our business is coming from, we need to offer an open, platform-independent, and secure system, because that is really what they are looking for.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Once and Future Kings
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue2.5/once.html
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