After speaking with John Yang from HP, Dean made calls to the likes of Compaq, IBM, and DEC as well.
Not all of these computer manufacturers stood up to publicly oppose Microsoft's practices, or to align themselves with Netscape.
Still, Dean had to do this because he needed to build confidence in these computer manufacturers.
He needed to tell them that Netscape would be the victor in this competition.
The Explorer browser was far superior to Navigator and was more popular with users.
Netscape was actively seeking solutions to the problem, which included but were not limited to legal measures.
At the same time, for those computer manufacturers that had shown goodwill, Dean also hinted at the idea of replacing Microsoft's operating system.
From their responses, Dean had already confirmed that at least two other companies besides HP were very enthusiastic about the idea.
