Editing Netscape (section)

==Product list==

===Initial product line===
Netscape's initial product line consisted of:
* [[Netscape Navigator]] web browser for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]], [[OS/2]], [[Unix]], and [[Linux]]
* Netsite Communications web server, with a web-based configuration interface<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcom.com/MCOM/products_docs/server.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406122059/http://www.mcom.com/MCOM/products_docs/server.html |archive-date=2008-04-06 |date=2008-04-06 |access-date=2012-10-29|title=Killer Products: Netsite }}</ref>
* Netsite Commerce web server, the Communications server with SSL (https) added
* Netscape Proxy Server
* Netscape Merchant System, an e-commerce platform that supported multiple languages & currencies

===Later Netscape products===
Netscape's later products included:
* Netscape Personal Edition (the browser along with [[Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]] software and an account creation wizard to sign up with an ISP)
* [[Netscape Communicator]] (a suite which included Navigator along with tools for mail, news, calendar, [[VoIP]], and composing web pages, and was bundled with [[AOL Instant Messenger]] and [[RealAudio]])
* Netscape FastTrack and Enterprise [[web server]]s
* Netscape Collabra Server, a [[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]] news server acquired in a purchase of Collabra Software, Inc.
* Netscape Directory Server, an [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] server
* Netscape Messaging Server, an [[Internet Message Access Protocol|IMAP]] and [[Post Office Protocol|POP]] mail server
* Netscape Certificate Server, for issuing [[Transport Layer Security|SSL]] certificates
* Netscape Calendar Server, for group scheduling
* Netscape Compass Server, a [[Web search engine|search engine]] and [[web spider|spider]]
* [[Netscape Application Server]], for designing [[web application]]s
* Netscape Publishing System, for running a commercial site with news articles and charging users per access
* Netscape Xpert Servers
**ECxpert – a server for [[Electronic Data Interchange|EDI]] message exchange
**SellerXpert – [[Business-to-business electronic commerce|B to B]] Commerce Engine
**BuyerXpert – eProcurement Engine
**BillerXpert – Online Bill Paying Engine
**TradingXpert – HTML EDI transaction frontend
**CommerceXpert – Online Retail Store engine
*[[AOL Radio|Radio@Netscape]] and [[AOL Radio|Radio@Netscape Plus]]

===Propeller===
{{Main|Propeller.com}}
Between June 2006 and September 2007, AOL operated Netscape's website as social news website similar to [[Digg]]. The format did not do well as traffic dropped 55.1 percent between November 2006 and August 2007.<ref name="searchenginewatch.com">{{cite web |url=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050575/Propeller.com-Spinning-to-a-Stop |title=Propeller.com Spinning to a Stop - Search Engine Watch (#SEW) |publisher=Search Engine Watch |access-date=2012-10-29 |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102002419/http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050575/Propeller.com-Spinning-to-a-Stop |url-status=live }}</ref> In September 2007, AOL reverted Netscape's website to a traditional news portal, and rebranded the social news portal as "Propeller", moving the site to the domain "propeller.com." AOL shut down the Propeller website on October 1, 2010.<ref name="searchenginewatch.com"/>

===Netscape Search===
Netscape operated a search engine, Netscape Search, which now redirects to [[AOL|AOL Search]] (which itself now merely serves [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]] (formerly [[Google]]) search results).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/06/29/aol-takes-over-majority-of-microsofts-ad-business-swaps-google-search-for-bing/|title=AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft's Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bing|access-date=November 16, 2017|archive-date=March 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309073908/https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/06/29/aol-takes-over-majority-of-microsofts-ad-business-swaps-google-search-for-bing/|url-status=live}}</ref> Another version of Netscape Search was incorporated into Propeller.

===Other sites===
Netscape also operated a number of country-specific Netscape portals, including Netscape Canada among others. The portal of  Netscape Germany was shut down in June 2008.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The Netscape Blog was written by Netscape employees discussing the latest on Netscape products and services. Netscape NewsQuake (formerly ''Netscape Reports'') is Netscape's news and opinion blog, including video clips and discussions. {{as of|January 2012}}, no new posts have been made on either of these blogs since August 2008.

===Netscape technologies===
Netscape created the [[JavaScript]] web page scripting language. It also pioneered the development of [[push technology]], which effectively allowed websites to send regular updates of information (weather, stock updates, package tracking, etc.) directly to a user's desktop (aka "webtop"); Netscape's implementation of this was named Netcaster.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Netscape pushes out Netcaster |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/netscape-pushes-out-netcaster/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=ZDNET |language=en |archive-date=December 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215201859/https://www.zdnet.com/article/netscape-pushes-out-netcaster/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, businesses quickly recognized the use of push technology to deliver ads to users, which annoyed them, so Netcaster was short-lived.

Netscape was notable for its [[cross-platform]] efforts. Its client software continued to be made available for Windows ([[Windows 3.1x|3.1]], [[Windows 95|95]], [[Windows 98|98]], [[Windows NT|NT]]), Macintosh, Linux, [[OS/2]], [[BeOS]], and many versions of Unix including [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Sun Solaris]], [[Berkeley Software Design|BSDI]], [[IRIX]], [[IBM AIX]], and [[HP-UX]]. Its server software generally was only available for Unix and Windows NT, though some of its servers were made available on Linux, and a version of Netscape FastTrack Server was made available for Windows 95/98. Today, most of Netscape's server offerings live on as the [[Sun Java System]], formerly under the [[Sun ONE]] branding. Although Netscape Browser 8 was Windows only, multi-platform support exists in the [[Netscape Navigator 9]] series of browsers.<ref name="wired" />