Netscape co-founder Clark debuts new extranet start-up

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 01:10:03 -0800
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
From: Somebody
Subject: Re: Netscape co-founder Clark debuts new extranet start-up

At 01:05 PM 11/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/clark110501.htm
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>Netscape co-founder Clark debuts new extranet start-up
>
>Jim Clark, founder of Netscape and serial start-up visionary, is at it
>again -- finally.
>
>Clark, together with the Barksdale Group, has poured $5 million into a new
>company called Neoteris. It is Clark's first venture investment since the
>tech downturn began a year and half ago.
>
>The company has worked on a shoe-string budget while in stealth mode for
>more than a year. And unlike Clark's previous ventures, Healtheon and
>MyCFO, Neoteris has avoided seeking market buzz until its product was
>ready. Neoteris has only eaten up about a third of its venture funding.
>
>Today, Neoteris unveils a product called an Instant Virtual Extranet, a box
>that allows people to sign on to a corporate network from any standard Web
>browser. So far, the product has been tested by about 10 customers, and
>it's getting rave reviews.

Someone with excellent security credentials commented:
- The people involved have no security background.
- It's not inter-operable with anything else.
- Since it doesn't run on the client you can't tell what kind of
information gets leaked.
- $100,000 for a box to do vpn's is a little rich.

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