Netscape's subscription program will help enterprise customers plan and manage their software budgets in advance. Several data sources, including the University of Illinois, Scripps Research Institute, the InterNect Financial Database and Genesis Medical Devices reported that Netscape Navigator Gold has gained substantial adoption in the market, averaging 9.5 percent. Since its availability in January on the Netscape Internet site, more than 1 million copies of Netscape Navigator Gold have been downloaded. Web documents created in Netscape Navigator Gold can be sent as email attachments that can be read easily by others in an organization. Enterprise users on Macintosh, Unix and Windows platforms can take advantage of the power of HTML for easy cross-platform collaboration.
Network administrators can authorize where a user can publish pages.
Other stand-alone editors often require proprietary server extensions and complicated user procedures to publish pages. Netscape Gold Rush Tool Chest, providing a collection of editable home page templates, background color schemes and graphical images, as well as more advanced tools such as Java applets, animated GIFs and JavaScript scripts to make user pages come alive. Netscape Page Wizard, an automated wizard that steps users quickly and easily through the process of creating their own Web pages. Netscape Navigator Gold 2.02 for Microsoft Windows 95 and NT is now shipping and available for download and evaluation from the Netscape Internet site. Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet.