10-5-95. FTPeach: "A David and Goliath fight, the battle between Netscape and Microsoft over software for the Internet." For all of his success in outwitting the likes of IBM to become the leader of the world's biggest software company, Bill Gates has long said that the competition he most feared would come from a software start-up with breakthrough, innovative technology. Netscape Communications may be such a company. But a war over technology standards, which could delay the progress of electronic commerce and potentially impede Netscape's growth, now seems inevitable. Netscape's hand has been weakened by recent incidents in which flaws in the security features of its browser software were discovered by two "cyberpunks" [sic]. $BN_air (8 kb)