Netscape Communications Corp says it’ll release a return on investment report next month showing its SuiteSpot servers are less expensive options to Microsoft Corp and Lotus Development Corp. The study will show that for enterprises with more than 10,000 clients the SuiteSpot costs $230,000; Microsoft Back Office costs $1.3m; Lotus Desktop Notes is $533,000 and a full version of Notes is $2.1m. Moutain View, California-based Netscape commissioned a major research firm for the cost analysis and is expected to release the results at its developers’ conference in October. The SuiteSpot line consists of six open server software components: Enterprise server, LiveWire Pro, Mail Server, News Server, Catalog server and Proxy Server (CI No 2,866).
