InSoft Inc.

Insoft, Inc.
IndustryComputer software
Founded1992
Defunct1996
FateMerged to Netscape Communications in 1996
HeadquartersMechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
United States
Key people
Daniel Harple
Richard Pizzarro
ProductsCommunique
InSoft Network Television
CoolTalk
CoolView
ICEMaker
InSoft ICS
ICE suite
Number of employees
70+ (1995)

InSoft Inc. was an American developer of network-based communications software and multimedia software founded in 1992 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The company’s applications included Communique, which is used for desktop collaboration and videoconferencing.[1]

InSoft has been called a pioneer in the desktop videoconferencing market,[2] and is credited with developing the first generation of Internet media streaming and VoIP/collaborative software applications that would later be developed into NetscapeConference and NetscapeMedia Server. These, in turn, would provide the groundwork for the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) standard. RTSP is used to control incoming data when streaming video. The company was sold to Netscape Communications on April 25, 1996.[3]

  1. ^ "Company Overview". Software: InSoft, Inc. February 10, 2012. Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  2. ^ IDG Network World Inc (31 October 1994). Network World. IDG Network World Inc. pp. 53–. ISSN 0887-7661. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Executive Profile, Dan Harple". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 5 February 2012.[dead link]