NETSCAPE PLACES SERVER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS ON THE INTERNET FOR FREE
EVALUATION

NEW TEST DRIVE PROGRAM LETS USERS DOWNLOAD NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS AND
COMMERCE SERVERS FOR FREE TRIAL

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 31, 1995) -- Netscape Communications Corporation
today announced that it is placing its server software products on the
Internet for free evaluation. The new Netscape Server Test Drive program,
patterned after the company's highly successful Netscape Navigator
evaluation program begun in October 1994, enables users to download and
use complete versions of the newly released Netscape Commerce Server 1.1
or Netscape Communications Server 1.1 for a 60-day trial period.

The Server Test Drive program gives individuals and organizations wanting
to publish information on the Internet or on corporate TCP/IP networks an
easy way to try Netscape's server products, which offer the highest
performance of available Web servers, easy configuration and maintenance,
and enhanced customization capabilities. Users can also test the security
features of Netscape Commerce Server, which includes the Secure Sockets
Layer open security protocol for conducting commerce and secure
communications over the net.

"Netscape Server Test Drive lets users easily experience the performance,
security, and reliability that Netscape servers deliver for publishing and
maintaining information on IP-based networks," said Marc Andreessen,
co-founder and vice president of technology at Netscape. "By making the
servers available for free evaluation, we hope to inspire more people to
bring their information and businesses online and to spur the continuing,
explosive growth of electronic publishing applications on global
networks."

Netscape servers will be available beginning Friday, June 2, for
downloading from Netscape's home page, which also contains product
information, special promotions, OEM partner information, Netscape server
newsgroups, and Netscape's online store. After filling out a short online
registration form and agreeing to the licensing terms, users can download
Netscape server software on the Internet for a variety of popular
UNIX-based platforms including Digital OSF/1 Alpha, Hewlett-Packard's
HP-UX, IBM's AIX operating systems, Silicon Graphics' IRIX, and Sun
Solaris and SunOS. The Windows NT versions of the servers are scheduled to
be available later in June for evaluation as well. When users complete
their evaluations, they may choose to purchase the servers from any of
Netscape's OEM or reseller partners including Digital Equipment, Silicon
Graphics, or Sun Microsystems, or direct from Netscape.

The newly released 1.1 versions of Netscape Communications Server and
Netscape Commerce Server allow companies or individuals to easily set up
and maintain servers for electronic publishing and commerce applications
on the Internet or corporate IP networks. The servers offer increased
performance over other HTTP-based servers by reducing response times and
making efficient use of available processor power and communications
bandwidth. The Netscape Server Application Programming Interface (NSAPI)
lets the servers be easily extended or integrated with custom applications
or complementary products such as relational databases or full text search
engines.The servers support open standards such as the HTTP protocol and
Common Gateway Interface. They also provide an intuitive, self-documenting
configuration and management user interface for easy set-up and
maintenance.

Netscape Communications Server is designed for organizations that want to
deliver multimedia content to various audiences, such as customer support
information to existing customers, online marketing materials to potential
customers, product development plans across company departments, or
corporate policies to employees. It includes basic access authorization,
which requires a user to specify user name and password to gain access.
The server can dynamically scale to handle heavy loads or be extended to
incorporate new features and functionality using the NSAPI.

Netscape Commerce Server, in addition to the above features, adds SSL to
enable secure commerce to be conducted over global networks. Netscape
Commerce Server is designed for online transactions and electronic data
exchange, enabling users to send sensitive documents over networks in a
secured manner.

The Server Test Drive program is available only in the United States. Users
evaluating the servers can get technical help from Netscape's home pages
and the Netscape Server Test Drive Newsgroup. Netscape Communications
Server has an end user price of $1,495 for UNIX versions or $795 for the
Windows NT version. Netscape Commerce Server has an end user price of
$5,000 for UNIX versions and $2,995 for the Windows NT version. Users
evaluating Netscape Commerce Server must purchase a signed digital
certificate from RSA Data Security.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software
to enable people and companies to exchange information and conduct
commerce over the Internet and other global networks. The company was
founded in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics,
Inc., a Fortune 500 computer systems company; and Marc Andreessen, creator
of the NCSA Mosaic research prototype for the Internet. Privately held,
Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View,
California.

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