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What are the advantages of Netcaster over the competition?

April 26, 2017advantages competition netcaster

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What are the advantages of Netcaster over the competition?

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• Netscape is the first to deliver push technology with numerous content providers. Although many push clients are on the market, none are based on open Internet standards – they require proprietary clients and servers. Netcaster is the first open standards-based push client built entirely from HTML, Java, and JavaScript that leverages existing architectures (standard web servers), existing protocols (HTTP), and existing layout and client programming languages (HTML, Java, and JavaScript). • Ubiquitous market distribution with support for multiple platforms. Netcaster is now available for Windows 95 and NT and is available in beta for Macintosh PowerPC and Unix AIX via SmartUpdate. Content providers and push vendors will choose to work with Netscape because of our dominant browser market share and our strategic advantage in supporting multiple platforms, thereby enabling distribution to the broadest possible audience, not just Windows 95 or 97 users. Microsoft has released only a Platf