By Peggy Watt
Network World, 4/27/98

NETSCAPE www.netscape.com/products

Browsers -
Netscape Navigator 4.04 (current version) free
Netscape Communicator 4.0 free
(Available for Windows 3.1, 95, NT; Macintosh; numerous Unix)

Development tools -
Netscape Publishing Suite $129.95
(Includes Netscape Communicator 4.0 and a variety of third-party web design tools, templates, and graphics).
Visual JavaScript $495
Visual JavaScript Pro $795

Servers -
Netscape FastTrack Server $295
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.51 (Windows NT, Unix) $1,295

Netscape SuiteSpot 3.5
(Standard Edition includes Netscape Calendar Server 3.5; Netscape Collabra Server 3.5; Netscape Directory Server 3.0; Netscape Enterprise Server 3.5; Netscape Messaging Server 3.5. SuiteSpot with 50 client access licenses: $4,100).
(Professional Edition includes Standard Edition servers plus Netscape Compass Server 3.0; Netscape Certificate Server 1.0; Netscape Proxy Server 3.5; Mission Control Desktop. SuiteSpot Pro with 50 Access Licenses: $7,000).
(various web servers also licensed separately)

Netscape Application Server 2.0 (acquired from Kiva)
($25,000 on Windows NT; $35,000 on the Sun Solaris, HP-UX and Silicon Graphics IRIX
Netscape Application Builder (toolkit) costs $1,295 per developer.

Netscape ECXpert 1.1 (commerce software from Actra)
(Part of Netscape CommerceXpert family of Internet commerce applications; available on Sun Solaris, Windows NT. Pricing begins at $75,000 for a two-CPU computer system).

MICROSOFT www.microsoft.com/products

Browsers -
Internet Explorer 4.0 (current version) free
(Available for Windows 3.1, 95, NT; Macintosh; numerous Unix)
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 4.01a

Development tools -
FrontPage 98 (current version; page design tool) $149
Visual J++ $99.95

Servers -
Internet Information Server 4.0 (Free with Windows NT Server, which starts at $809)
Site Server, Enterprise Edition $1,998

Back Office Server 4.0
(includes Windows NT Server 4.0, IIS 4.0, Index Server 2.0; Certificate Server; Transaction Server 2.0; Message Queue Server; Internet Connection Services for Remote Access Service; single-user FrontPage 98; Exchange Server 5.5; Proxy Server 2.0; SNA Server 4.0; SQL Server 6.5; Site Server 3.0; SMS 1.2, utilities) $2,499; Client licenses priced separately, starting at $1,309 for five.
(various web servers also licensed separately)