Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California.
Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the so-called first browser war. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90 percent in the mid-1990s to less than one percent by the end of 2006.
Netscape is credited with JavaScript, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages, as well as developing the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, that was much used, before its successor TLS took over.
Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion. Shortly before its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering engine; all future Netscape releases were based on this rewritten code. The Gecko engine would later be used to power the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser.
Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when AOL announced that the company would stop supporting the Netscape browser as of early 2008. AOL has continued to use the Netscape brand in recent years to market a discount Internet service provider.
We started DevSquad after selling our own SaaS. Building and running a product teaches you that the most expensive mistakes happen before development starts. So that's where our work begins. Every engagement opens with strategy, not a quote: we pressure-test the idea and prove it creates real business value before anyone writes a line of code.
Since 2014, we've launched 100+ products with cross-functional squads across the US and Brazil.
OUR SERVICES
➡️SaaS product development:
We will tell you when an idea isn't worth building. The SaaS market is consolidating, not shrinking. Winners are compounding, and single-feature tools are dying. We help you vet your idea and build it properly: prototype, real user testing, go-to-market in 3 to 9 months.
➡️Custom software:
Your business shouldn't have to work around your software. When spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and manual workarounds start capping your growth, we replace them with systems built around how you actually operate.
➡️Legacy modernization:
Unchain yourself from platforms that are expensive to maintain and impossible to change. We rebuild the foundation without stopping the business.
HOW WE WORK
💪🏼𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐬. We run teams of 2 to 6 developers. They operate faster, more precisely, and with less coordination tax.
🏆𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝. Product strategist, technical product manager, UX, developers, QA, DevOps. One team, one accountability line.
👟𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥-𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞. New ideas get vetted in a discovery track while approved work ships in delivery. Feature bloat never reaches your budget.
📅𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡. No long-term contracts. We keep your business by earning it.
Learn more about what sets us apart at devsquad.com.
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