Netscape details plans to take the desktop. (challenges Microsoft with IIOP standard) (Company Business and Marketing)

Netscape Communications Corp. plans to take its fight with Microsoft Corp. directly to its rival's stronghold -- the desktop.

If things go according to Netscape's plan, this push toward distributed object computing will reduce the need for the large-scale application suites that currently dominate desktops.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company hopes that as distributed object technology makes advancements that are based on the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), software developers will focus on creating interoperable objects that can link together to offer the same functions that the large, monolithic application suites currently provide.

Netscape's …