Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Musi waNovember 24, 1998, America Online (AOL) yakazivisa kuti yaizowana Netscape Communications mukutsinhana kwemasheya pasina mutero kwakakosha US $ 4.2 bhiriyoni. Munguva iyi, maonero aAndreessen eNetscape akachinja; kwaari, yakanga isisiri bhurawuza chete, intranet, extranet, kana kambani yesoftware, asi kubatanidzwa kwezvigadzirwa nemasevhisi. Pakazopera chibvumirano chacho musi waMarch 17, 1999, chakanga chava kuyerwa nemari inenge US$10 bhiriyoni. Kubatanidzwa uku kwakasekwa nevakawanda vaitenda kuti tsika mbiri dzemakambani hadzigone kusangana; mumwe wevanonyanya kushoropodza aive mugadziri wenguva refu weNetscape Jamie Zawinski. Kutenga kwacho kwaionekwa senzira yokuti AOL iwane mukana wokutengeserana neMicrosoft, kuitira kuti isanyanya kuvimba neInternet Explorer. Vamwe vaidavira kuti AOL yaifarira Netcenter, kana kuti zvinhu zvewebhu zveNetscape, izvo zvaikwezva vamwe vevanhu vakawanda munyika yose. Pakupedzisira, Netscape's server products and its Professional Services group yakava chikamu che iPlanet, mubatanidzwa wekushambadzira nekusimudzira pakati peAOL neSun Microsystems. Musi waNovember 14, 2000, AOL yakabudisa Netscape 6, yakavakirwa paMozilla 0.6 source code. (Shanduro 5 yakasiiwa.) Zvinosuruvarisa, Mozilla 0.6 yakanga ichiri kure nokuva yakagadzikana, uye naizvozvo mugumisiro weNetscape 6 waiva wokudzingazve vanhu kure neNetscape brand. Yakanga isati iri kutozosvikira muna August 2001 apo Netscape 6.1 yakaonekwa, yakavakirwa paMozilla 0.9.2 iyo yakanga yakasimba zvikuru. Gore rimwe gare gare kwakauya Netscape 7.0, yakavakirwa paMozilla 1.0 musimboti.  Mubvunzo: Kutenga Netscape kwakaitwa neAOL kwaifungidzirwa kuva kwakakura zvakadini?
US$4,2 bhiriyoni