- From
- Bill Gates
- Sent
- Sunday, December 1, 1996 9:24 PM
- To
- Amar Nehru
- Cc
- Brad Silverberg, Brad Chase, Steve Ballmer, Paul Maritz
- Subject
- RE: Netscape Revenues (Long mail)
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What kind of data do we have about how much software companies pay Netscape?
In particular I am curious about their deals with Corel, Lotus and Intuit. All of these ship a lot of units of Netscape. In our discussions we must have some kind of sense of the revenue which Netscape gets from this.
I was surprised at the ISP revenue being so high. The services revenue is NOT primarily from the home page as is stated in this report. Netscape does better selling things like the SEARCH button. Someone should be more concrete about what they get (non-barter) from the home page. I think its quite low.
I don't think this analysis needed to be sent to so many people.
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