Subject: Re: New Century Network From: PFiske@aol.com Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 22:32:44 -0400

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What are we to make of this: NCN is announced, with a goal of establishing a
single standard for many prospective member papers to follow in setting up on
the web. Several member companies have bought Netscape, which seems to
provide NCN with a good platform for its venture, and some other promising
stuff (like a company that serves MLS realtors). A few days later, a couple
of other members of the NCN consortium buy Open Market, apparently a
competitor of Netscape, and say they are going to create the complete
platform from which publishers can deal with their customers directly, or
some such. If these are competing platforms, as characterized in WSJ,
acquired by members of the same NCN consortium, then:
1) Are they less than serious about a single standard, and by implication the
whole project?
2) Are they trying to get technologies that might compete with whatever
standard NCN chooses off the market by buying them all up?
3) Do they instead plan on combining aspects of the two platforms in some
useful manner?
4) Do they have no clue what they are doing?
5) Do I (alone) have no clue what they are doing?
All insights gratefully recieved

Phineas Fiske
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"From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" --
paraphrased from Kant, sort of.

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