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Netscape co-founder, Marc Andreessen, has finally started talking to the media after he stopped it in May this year. He gave an interview to Portfolio but he didn’t start bashing at anyone. Here are some of the extracts of the interview:

When asked about Google’s browser “Chrome”, he said:

It’s very meaningful. It’s going to force Firefox and Internet Explorer to accelerate their performance. Basically, the barriers to doing everything in the browser are falling fast.

On iPhone, Marc said:

The iPhone is going to be at 100 million units before you know it. This is going to force everybody else to raise their game.

When asked about whether Google is the new Microsoft, the next big thing in tech, he said:

It is true that Google is doing a lot of different things, and some will compete with other Valley companies. But the pros outweigh any future competitive threat. Google does so much to make other startups possible. Google makes new internet efforts easy to find. Google runs a large advertising network that distributes money to people who run ads. It is training and educating a very large base of really sharp people, many straight out of college, many of whom are not going to spend their entire careers at Google. Google is fertilizing the base. So I think it’s been very, very positive.

[via Silicon Alley Insider]