Netscape & Ning Founder Sells Software Co. for $1.6 Billion

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Pete Cashmore
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Netscape & Ning Founder Sells Software Co. for $1.6 Billion

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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, co-author of Mosaic and co-founder of "build your own" social networking service Ning, enjoys a payday today with the announcement that his enterprise software company Opsware has been acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.6 billion in cash.

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