All on one site, developers can find the tools, applications, source, and consulting they need to build and deploy intranet applications. Even more importantly, Netscape has provided an exceptional promotional and distribution facility for their partners. Large numbers of vendors are vying for visibility on AppFoundry because it know it will help drive revenue. Netscape is making money for its partners, and in doing so it has learned how to win in the intranet. Corporations want solutions, not technology.
Innovation is only relevant to companies when it leads to applications that can be deployed.
AppFoundry is a major advance in this area for both Netscape and Java. Conclusion Corporations have standardized on Microsoft because its products were ubiquitous, its technology adequate, and because there was a large after market for compatible products, applications and developers. With its enhancements to ONE and the AppFoundry, Netscape is taking this approach with the intranet. If the company delivers as promised, many corporations will find it an offer they can't refuse. His focus in the last seven years has been on distributed object environments and the Internet.