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Michael Homer dies - key exec at Netscape

 
Michael Homer, an influential Silicon Valley mentor and key executive at Netscape during the "browser wars" against giant competitor Microsoft in the mid-1990s, died Sunday at his home in Atherton. He was 50. Mr. Homer was diagnosed in 2007 with a rare... (link)

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