October 24, 1996
Netscape and Symantec today announced they will work together to promote Symantec Visual Cafe as the premier visual Java development environment for Netscape ONE open network environment. Netscape ONE is a standards-based platform for creating a new generation of distributed client/server applications for Intranets and the Internet.
Netscape and Symantec also announced that Netscape plans to license the industry-leading Symantec Java Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler version 2 for inclusion in Netscape's software fine for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. The Symantec Just-In-Time Compiler is expected to improve the speed and performance of Java applications running inside Netscape Navigator browser software. As a result, Netscape users will enjoy an enhanced Internet experience with faster execution of the thousands of Java applications available on Web pages and corporate Intranets worldwide.
The two companies also announced that Symantec will provide support for Netscape ONE in Symantec Visual Cafe and host a Symantec Tools Forum in the DevEdge Online community, Netscape's on-line resource for developers. Symantec also announced that it is providing free copies of Symantec Visual Cafe Preview to conference attendees.
"Symantec's support for Netscape ONE further illustrates the breadth of world- class development tools available for the Netscape platform," said Marc Andreessen, senior vice president of technology for Netscape. "Together, Netscape and Symantec are making it easy for Java developers to use Netscape Internet Foundation Classes to build a whole new class of network applications that span the corporate firewall to include customers and partners into their business processes."
"With Visual Cafe, Symantec is building an integrated solution that enables corporate developers to rapidly build and deploy enterprise apps that run on the Intranet," said Mansour Safai, general manager of Symantec's Internet Tools Division.
The Symantec Just-In-Time Compiler turns Java bytecodes into native processor instructions for faster execution of Java applets and standalone applications on the Internet and Intranets. Symantec's new version 2 compiler provides significant speed improvements and brings Java execution much closer to native execution. In private benchmark tests, the Symantec JIT version 2 is twice as fast as previous versions and clearly faster than competitive compilers currently on the market today.