__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Thursday 01 March 2007 12:00 \__
> Rick Frederking (LCA)
>
> From: Steve Ballmer
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 1996 9 26 PM
> To: Bill Gates; Amar Nehru
> Cc: Brad Silverberg; Brad Chase; Paul Mantz
> Subject: RE: Netscapes Revenues (Longmail)
>
> I asked amar to sent it broadly, I may have gone overboard, we should
> have been more precise that home page means ads of all kinds, sorry. The
> rsv revenue we did not dig into, it will have to lower one of our other
> estimates if sizable, we will brainstorm how to get a grab.
>
> - original message -
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent Sunday, December 01, 1996 9:24 PM
> To: Amar Nehru
> Cc: Brad Silverberg; Brad Chase; Steve Ballmer; Paul Mantz
> Subject: RE: Netscapes Revenues (Longmail)
>
> What kind of date do we have about how much software companies pay
> Netscape?
>
> In particular I am curious about their deals with Corel, Lotus and
> Intuit. All of these ship a lot if units of Netscape. In our discussions
> we must have some kind of sense of the revenue which Netscape gets from
> this.
>
> I was surprised at the ISP revenue being so high. This services revenue
> is NOT primarily from the home page as is stated in this report.
> Netscape does better things like the SEARCH button. Someone should me
> more concrete about what they get (non-barter) from the home page. I
> think this is quite low.
>
> I don't think this analysis needed be sent to many people.
>
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> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5825.pdf
Thanks for these. I'm documenting and sharing that stuff in New Netscape. Let
the people know their rival's true colours...
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