NETSCAPE TO ACQUIRE COLLABRA SOFTWARE

COMPANY AIMS TO EXTEND LEAD INTO COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING AND MESSAGING
MARKET

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (September 21, 1995) -- Netscape Communications
Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced the signing of a definitive
agreement to acquire Collabra Software, Inc., the leading independent
developer of collaborative computing software. The acquisition is aimed at
extending Netscape's position as a premier open software provider for
linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet
into the burgeoning collaboration and messaging market.

"By combining Collabra's products and technologies with our own, we broaden
our ability to offer customers strong, integrated solutions for easily
communicating and collaborating within and beyond the enterprise using
open standards," said Jim Barksdale, president and CEO of Netscape. "We
also gain the benefit of Collabra's tremendous team of people, who bring
world-class expertise in providing messaging and collaborative
technologies."

"With the overwhelming majority of our enterprise customers wanting to
integrate their internal messaging systems with the Internet, we are
extremely excited to join Netscape," said Eric Hahn, president and CEO of
Collabra. "Working with Netscape's outstanding team will enable us to
deliver our market-leading collaboration technology on the platform our
customers are requesting. The result of this agreement will be a
state-of-the-art client/server, platform-independent product family based
on open standards."

Netscape will purchase 100 percent of Collabra, a privately held company,
for 1.85 million shares of Netscape stock, to be accounted for as a
pooling of interests. The deal is expected to close on or before January
31, 1996.

Collabra Software, located close to Netscape in Mountain View, California,
was founded in 1993 by Eric Hahn, former GM of Lotus' market-leading
cc:Mail Division, to develop messaging-based collaborative computing
products. The company's management and technical teams have extensive
expertise in collaborative computing solutions. Collabra currently employs
47 people, including more than 20 engineers.

Collabra's flagship product, Collabra Share, first shipped in July 1994 and
quickly emerged as a leading group conferencing and information sharing
application. Collabra Share makes teams more effective, collaboration more
affordable, and organizational learning automatic by providing electronic
discussion forums where people can distribute and discuss information.
Collabra Share leverages companies' existing messaging infrastructures
including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, Novell Groupwise, Banyan
BeyondMail and Lotus cc:Mail.

"Our customers on enterprise networks have asked us for collaboration and
messaging tools to enable people in their organizations to work together
more effectively," said Marc Andreessen, vice president of technology for
Netscape. "Our research showed Collabra's technology to be best-of-class
for providing open systems, collaborative computing solutions. By
integrating Collabra's technology tightly into the Netscape open systems
platform, we can provide our customers with the first comprehensive
collaboration and communications platform spanning the enterprise and the
Internet."

Netscape will incorporate Collabra's collaboration and messaging
capabilities into future versions of Netscape Navigator and Netscape
server products and will offer these capabilities on Netscape's supported
platforms. These combined products will dramatically extend Netscape's
open systems commitment to the corporate collaboration and messaging
markets, and will combine state-of-the-art functionality, platform
independence and a client/server architecture.

The companies' products will be integrated in two phases: The combined
companies will remain committed to the Collabra Share 2.0 product line.
Netscape will continue to market, support and evolve Collabra Share 2.0.

Throughout 1996, Netscape will release upgrades to Netscape Navigator and
Netscape servers which will begin to integrate Collabra Share. Netscape
Navigator customers will be able to begin taking advantage of Collabra's
state-of-the-art collaboration features. The companies plan for the next
major release of Netscape Navigator -- following version 2.0 of Netscape
Navigator which was announced earlier this week -- to incorporate fully
the Collabra Share functionality within the Netscape open systems
platform. This next-generation product suite will support open standards
-- including TCP/IP and open mail protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, and POP --
as well as MAPI, and will be an integrated client/server,
platform-independent collaboration and messaging environment for open
systems.

This product strategy will provide a logical upgrade path for customers
currently using Netscape and Collabra products. Customers using open
networks or who are migrating to open networks will get the advantages of
both the Collabra and Netscape product families.

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. Traded on Nasdaq
under the symbol "NSCP", Netscape Communications Corporation is based in
Mountain View, California.

Find out more about Netscape at info@netscape.com, or call 415/528- 2555.
 
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