Son of Netscape
THE search for the next Microsoft is an understandable obsession. But although this week's $6.4-billion merger between two of Silicon Valley's highest-flying software communications firms, Phone.com and Software.com, inevitably prompted such talk, the reality is that Phone.com already looks rather more like the next Netscape—Microsoft's erstwhile victim.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Son of Netscape”
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