Netscape Communications Corp has appointed Eric Hahn as chief technology officer and executive vice president, replacing Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, who is now executive vice president of products. Hahn came to Netscape in 1995 with the company’s acquisition of Collabra Software Inc (CI No 2,797), where he was founder and chief executive officer. He’s been […]
Netscape Communications Corp has appointed Eric Hahn as chief technology officer and executive vice president, replacing Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, who is now executive vice president of products. Hahn came to Netscape in 1995 with the company’s acquisition of Collabra Software Inc (CI No 2,797), where he was founder and chief executive officer. He’s been on sabbatical from his last position as SVP and general manager of the server products division. Hahn said there’ll be more emphasis on e-commerce over the coming months and a continued emphasis on delivering technologies to development applications that work across networks under its CrossWare strategy. He says that as Netscape built a server software business through last year and sought to disassociate itself from being labeled a browser company, attention shifted away from Navigator, effectively its point-of-sale devices, through which one third of its sales are made. The other thirds are from product sales and services respectively. Hahn expects Netscape to be fully compliant with Sun Microsystems Inc’s Java JDK 1.1 by year-end and says it’s critical that Microsoft Corp gets back in the boat referring to its spat with Sun over Java compatibility.
