The consumer electronics industry is also latching on to the Internet, with Web plans for everything from Nintendo and Sega game machines to televisions. Although Clark did acknowledge that problems exist, he said that reports of security problems in Netscape Navigator were overplayed. Companies are wholeheartedly embracing the concept that they don't have to be totally tied to one vendor or platform. He also painted a rosy outlook for telecommunications pricing. As a consequence, we'll get higher-bandwidth data services through cable companies.
Cable companies can use voice on the data channel and compete with local phone companies.
He explained that that in turn would encourage phone companies to lower costs. With 80 percent of Netscape's business coming from companies using Web technology to build internal corporate intranets, Netscape is clearly focused on providing technology to build intranet applications. He also showed a sales tracking tool that automatically updated a graph based on new spreadsheet data. All the components that enable such applications are tied together by Sun Microsystems' JavaScript. Netscape is not trying to create a Notes killer, but is offering such features because of customer demands for open systems.