Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tech Founder's Vision:From Netscape to the Cloud

Marc Andreesen,co-founder of the early Internet firm Netscape,notes that everyone thinks we're in a tech bubble,which means we must not be.I don't think we've seen the innovators yet,let alone the idiots.
The industry rewards ingenuity,aggressiveness,innovation.The successful are successful because they are so good at innovation.
In the last five years,500 million people have switched browsers.We're basically reinventing browsers around the services people like to use,such as Facebook.
Cloud computing means moving out into the Internet,using Gmail and Google documents instead of Microsoft Outlook.It's a very big architecture change,with matching companies springing up.
There are more than two billion people on the Internet.I think the perception of tech has caught up to the reality.
Marc Andreesen co-founded Netscape with Jim Clark,being one of the inventors of the browser that became Netscape.Today,Netscape is a holding company of AOL,consisting of a web browser,discount Internet service provider and popular social news website.Netscape moved from Mountain View,California to Dulles,Virginia.
AOL,Inc.(AOL),Google(GOOG),Microsoft(MSFT)

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