NETSCAPE TO LICENSE SUN'S JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - May 23, 1995 - Furthering the relationship between
two of the most prominent companies supplying tools and solutions for the
Internet, Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
announced today that Netscape intends to license Sun's Java programming
language to implement in the Netscape Navigator browser.

The Java language, the result of several years of research and development
at Sun Microsystems, is the first to provide a comprehensive solution to
the challenges of programming for the Internet, providing portability,
security, advanced networking and reliability without compromising
performance. Netscape Navigator will be able to download small Java
software programs, called applets, which run on the client system.

Programs that are built with the Java language are transported securely
through the network using Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) open
protocol in a platform-independent format. The Java language supports a
complex, networked environment of clients and servers, and can link in new
forms of code without requiring anything of the user.

Netscape Navigator, which began shipping in December 1994, is currently
ranked as the No. 1 browser on the World Wide Web, with more than 75
percent of the browser market according to independent estimates.

Eric Schmidt, chief technical officer at Sun, envisioned a whole host of
services that will be created through the combination of Java and Netscape
technologies. "By integrating the Java language into Netscape Navigator,
Netscape and Sun will enable a whole new wave of Internet services that we
are just beginning to imagine, such as interactive advertising and
real-time stock portfolio management. The possibilities are nearly
limitless," he said.

Marc Andreessen, vice president of technology at Netscape, said, "Java is a
leading-edge development language that provides important characteristics
such as portability, security and networking capabilities. We plan to use
the Java language to increase the extensibility of Netscape Navigator and
to create a whole new class of client/server applications."

Specifically, Netscape intends to license the Java Runtime Interpreter, the
Java Foundation Classes and Java Compiler and Development Tools. Netscape
plans to integrate the Java language into future versions of Netscape
Navigator.

The Java language has been available since April for developers using the
Sun Solaris or SunOS platforms. Sun also announced today the availability
of the language for Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 95
operating systems. Sun and Netscape have maintained a series of
collaborations since Netscape was founded in 1994. Sun is already offering
Netscape's open software products, including: Netscape Navigator, a
powerful commercial network navigator, using principles of point-and-click
Internet navigation; and the Netscape server line, which allows companies
or individuals to easily set up and maintain servers for publishing
information and conducting commercial operations on the Internet or
corporate IP networks.

The two companies have also collaborated on various research and
development projects aimed at promoting open standards for Internet
protocols. 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.

With revenues in excess of $5 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., is a world
leader in the design, manufacture and sale of open network computing
products and services, including workstations and servers, microprocessor
and system application-specific IC design, system software, networking
products, professional service and support and aftermarketing services.
The company's SPARC workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC
microprocessors, Solaris operating software and UNIX service organization
each rank No. 1 in the UNIX industry. Founded in 1982, Sun is
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 13,000
employees in 32 offices worldwide.

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