We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.