Corporate Use of Mosaic

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Subject: Corporate Use of Mosaic
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My company is actively seeking a tool to use as a hypertext interface
for browsing our documents.  On the side I have converted a small
number of our SGML docs (from Publisher) to HTML as a "proof of
technology".  This conversion is now automatic and I think Transarc
would benefit greatly from this time savings.

Transarc, however, currently favors a product called OpenView (I
think).  This support stems from the fact that OpenView is supported
by a corporation with a professional reputation to uphold.  They fear
being left in the lurch if NCSA should someday stop supporting Mosaic.
My opinion is that we would get a fix from the Mosaic community more
quickly than we would from the OpenView folks, and if we cannot get a
fix from outside we at least have the chance to fix it ourselves.


Specifically, I need answers to the following questions:


    - Is there a royalty fee for redistributing Mosaic when it is
      packaged with lots of our own stuff (e.g. docs and programs
      on a CDROM)?

    - What sort of support can be expected?

    - Are there other corporations which depend on Mosaic for their
      hypertext needs?  If so, what are their experiences?


I know, the source is available and we could fix any defect we found.
I agree, but this is seen as a bad solution by the PTB.

My take is "Hundreds of thousands of people use it daily and it has
become a fairly robust application with powerful features.  It's free.
It will further empower our customers in a way unavailable with
commercial solutions.  Let's use it."

Jonathan