As one who started at Netscape in 1996 and saw it through to the sale to AOL ($4B Sale, Final Day of Trading $10B) - I'll agree that the constant shuffling, moving, and campus growth was a pretty constant distraction - but what else could they do? Ton of product lines, lots of markets in the land grab, and you needed to put the people _somewhere_
I think Netscape managed their office shifts pretty well from 1996 onwards. I don't think it could have been done much better.
And, one could do worse than selling their five year old company (April 4, 1994 - sometime around April, 1999) for $10 Billion. :-)
I think Netscape managed their office shifts pretty well from 1996 onwards. I don't think it could have been done much better.
And, one could do worse than selling their five year old company (April 4, 1994 - sometime around April, 1999) for $10 Billion. :-)