Netscape discussions

I think there is a very powerful deal of some kind we can do with Netscape. The basic framework is the following: - Clients make no money - Netscape is very influential on what happens with Clients - We want a number of things to become standard in the client - financial protocols, OLE, authentication to our directory... - There are a small number of things we dont want in the client - Opendoc - Servers will make money - For the next 24 months we can help Netscape with servers without hurting ourselves in any large way. We don't have a large forecast for servers - We want them to focus somewhat on NT servers but it doesnt have to be exclusive Therefore the concept is that for 24 months they agree to do certain things in the client and we agree to help make their server business successful How do we help them in the server business? - Share the source code of our server and our technical work - Help them market their server - (I need more ideas here) This kind of deal could be a big win win. Of course over time we will compete on servers but we can help them a lot in the meantime. We could even pay them money as part of the deal buying some piece of them or something. I would really like to see something like this happen!!