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Spyglass Inc. of Naperville, Illinois is specifically targeting CD-ROM developers in its marketing literature, noting that Mosaic is a "ready-made CD-ROM interface, eliminating the lengthy and costly process of CD interface development." The company also emphasizes that their browser is not tied to the Internet. Here is the way they put it: "Spyglass Mosaic does not require an Internet connection to run, so users don't need an Internet connection to view critical CD content." Spyglass also outlines some of the benefits of hybrid projects, emphasizing that delivering hybrid Webenabled CD-ROM eliminates issues of Web accessibility and delivering large graphics files over the Web. For you to get the best of both worlds, the company recommends "loading large graphical files from CD-ROM, while small text files are downloaded from online sites."
Cisco Systems, the networking hardware company based in San Jose, California, has been using Mosaic as the basis of an interesting CD/Web hybrid customer support application. In order to reduce the cost of its...