IP: ORACLE CHIEF THINKS NETSCAPE'S ON WAY OUT (or is he ready

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said an industry conference in Paris
that its sometime-ally Netscape has "no chance of surviving."  Predicting
that Netscape's Navigator Web browser was doomed, Ellison said that "there
will be no such thing as a browser in a couple of years," because browsers
will have been replaced by central servers that will supersede current
searching and messaging software.  Netscape executives have suggested that
Ellison is hoping to talk down the price of Netscape in preparation for a
takeover attempt.  (Financial Times 3 Oct 96)