Hi,

Don't forget Netscape is the most popular choice of browser for anyone using
a UNIX/Linux platform... That probably accounts for a lot of those 14,000...

Cheers,
Fernando

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Suskind" <pr1mosyahoo.com>
To: <webappsecsecurityfocus.com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Thought you would find these stats interesting ....
> Not suprising at all.
>
> 1. Since Win95 OSR2, IE has come standard. Netscape you have to go
> get.
>
> 2. How many people will tolerate a 15MB download over a 56kb
> connection?
>
> 3. Since AOL bought Netscape, many of their developers left. It was
> far too long for Netscape 6.0 to come out, when it finally did, it
> was a buggy mess. Took another bunch of time before Netscape 6.x was
> usable.
>
> 4. Now, almost 4 years later, it is sort of "what's netscape"?
>
> 5. Many of the people that did have Netscape, and it was probably
> 4.x, have all replaced their systems (about a 3 year life span). Once
> you get a new system, it has a browser so why bother getting another
> one (see number 2)?
>
> 6. IE 5.0 worked better than Netscape 4.x did. Even people that don't
> like Microsoft and used Netscape as a statement for not being for the
> evil empire wained in the frustration of using a browser that had
> issues.
>
> Is there anything I am missing?
>
>
>
>
>
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