Hard Knocks,Age Transform a Web pioneer

"Marc Andreessen, once the golden boy on the cutting edge of the go-go Internet economy, has gone retro.

The young brain behind Netscape Communications Corp. -- which popularized the modern-day Internet browser and helped launch the frenzied dot-com boom of the late 1990s -- has spent the past several years engaged in an old-fashioned pursuit: rebuilding a traditional software company, Opsware Inc., and trying to make it profitable."