{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='USA: AMERICA ONLINE TO BUY NETSCAPE' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bdd9d8eafeecae137254' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bdd9d8eafeecae137254' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nUSA: AMERICA ONLINE TO BUY NETSCAPE\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003e  Mountain View, California and Washington, DC, USA  November 24, 1998Mountain View, California1. Pan view of Netscape campus2. Walk in view of Netscape CEO James Barksdale3. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Barksdale, Netscape Chief Executive...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e  Mountain View, California and Washington, DC, USA  November 24, 1998\u003cbr/\u003eMountain View, California\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan view of Netscape campus\u003cbr/\u003e2. Walk in view of Netscape CEO James Barksdale\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Barksdale, Netscape Chief Executive Officer \u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway of cameraman\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Barksdale, Netscape Chief Executive Officer \u003cbr/\u003e6. Push in view of computer screen\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various views of computer screens\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology\u003cbr/\u003e10.  Various views of computer screens\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English)  William Neukom, Senior Vice President, Law \u0026amp;amp; Corporate Affairs, Microsoft\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various views A-O-L on computer screen\u003cbr/\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eAmerica Online is to buy Netscape in a 4.21 (b) billion (U-S) dollar deal that turns the world's largest Internet service provider into a new superpower of the high-tech industry. \u003cbr/\u003eThe deal also effectively concludes Netscape's dramatic rise and fall as an independent Internet pioneer.\u003cbr/\u003eNetscape's Navigator is one of the world's most popular web browsers, which allows people to \"surf\" the World Wide Web.\u003cbr/\u003eThe agreement, announced on Tuesday, includes Sun Microsystems, which will distribute Netscape's business-level software in exchange for A-O-L's purchase of Sun's powerful computers.\u003cbr/\u003eAmerica Online (A-O-L),  already with more than 14 (m) million subscribers, becomes the distributor of Netscape's hugely popular Internet browser software and the owner of two of the four most popular sites on the Web.\u003cbr/\u003eThe deal gives A-O-L remarkable reach and enough influence to challenge industry giant Microsoft's dominance in key areas.\u003cbr/\u003eNetscape's website alone draws 20 (m) million visitors each month. \u003cbr/\u003eNetscape's Chief Executive Officer, James Barksdale, told reporters he was excited by the deal.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We think the combination with A-O-L is just a killer deal.  The reason is that we think that what we are about here in this merger is building a winning combination or the winning company in building the internet into the potential that we all dream of into the 21st century, so its just an exciting day for us.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Barksdale, Netscape Chief Executive Officer \u003cbr/\u003eThe four-year-old company, Netscape, whose software popularised the Internet - and whose dramatic debut on the stock market was among the most successful ever - would cease to exist as an independent entity.\u003cbr/\u003eBarksdale rejected any notion that the merger would affect the on-going U-S Department of Justice case against Microsoft.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Oh I, that's silly. I think the case of the D-O-J ... this announcement had very little to do with that.  The case in front of the D-O-J is whether Microsoft in the past engaged in predatory practises as monopolist.  I think thats fairly clear that they did and I think that the D-O-J will prevail.  This arrangement with A-O-L has nothing to do with that specifically.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Barksdale, Netscape Chief Executive Officer \u003cbr/\u003eUnder the deal, America Online Inc., based just outside Washington in Dulles, Virginia, is expected to operate Netscape Communications Corporation as a separate division in Mountain View, California.\u003cbr/\u003eBarksdale will join AOL's board of directors, and AOL said it also wants to hire Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. \u003cbr/\u003eNetscape shareholders will receive .45 shares of AOL stock for each of the 99.5 (m) million outstanding shares of Netscape stock.\u003cbr/\u003eA Washington public-interest group run by consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader, the Consumer Project on Technology, vowed to protest against any AOL-Netscape deal.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group's director, Jamie Love, said its opposition in part stems from the market for Internet software - generally split among Netscape and Microsoft - already being too concentrated.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Microsoft and America Online have a presence in Europe, they have a presence in Japan, a presence in Malaysia, a presence in Canada, they have a presence in Australia,  they have a presence all over the world.  This is not just a U-S issue, its really about whether the future of the internet is going to be one where you are tied in to particular content providers like America Online or Microsoft, or whether its truly an open platform. This merger is a very anti-open platform merger.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology\u003cbr/\u003eThe group also objects because many of the nation's hundreds of private Internet providers currently distribute Netscape's browser for licensing fees. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you like the whole world to look like America Online and Microsoft Network I guess this is good news.  But if you think that you have a different vision for the internet, one that is not chocked full of advertisements and commercialism and things like that and where the user has more control over the navigation - then this is a terrible merger.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology\u003cbr/\u003eUnder the proposed deal, those private Internet providers would indirectly be funding AOL, among their greatest rivals, by paying it fees for Netscape's software.\u003cbr/\u003eThe alliance poses new competition for Microsoft, whose own business tactics against Netscape were so aggressive that the federal government is suing Microsoft for alleged antitrust violations.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd that is why Microsoft cheered the deal, saying it undermines the government's lawsuit.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE:(English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This deal proves that the competitive landscape of this high technology industry, of which Microsoft is a part, can change dramatically overnight.  The industry and consumers in an active marketplace, which free and vigorous competition, do a better job of protecting consumers than the government can ever hope to do.  This deals shows that the government has always been and will always be in a dynamic innovative industry like ours five steps behind the industry.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  William Neukom, Senior Vice President, Law and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft\u003cbr/\u003eMicrosoft's Internet software competes against Netscape's, and its Microsoft Network online service rivals A-O-L, although M-S-N has been far less successful.\u003cbr/\u003eSun competes against Microsoft in several areas, from rival operating systems to its Java technology which is designed to work on various operating systems.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan id='read_more'\u003eRead More\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv 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