Netscape Basher wrote: > They picked up the story from newsforge.com, a pro-Linux site. If the > story had merits, the big boys like CNET would eat this up. AOL has no > plans to switch it's customers to Netscape. They are considering Linux > because it's a lot cheaper.
So lets see if I follow you. According to you the story is bogus in respect to AOL switching to gecko (no big news organizations has picked it up) but yet you quote the same article in terms of AOL switching to Linux because is a lot cheaper as if it was true. Make up your mind. you either belive the story or not. If AOL is testing Gecko in Compuserve software, why not on AOL? That is the logical progression of events. AOL 8.0 is probably many months away (late 2002, early 2003, anyway). By then Mozilla and underlying gecko would probably be at version 1.2. I beta tested AOL 7.0 and it took them several months after beta before they released it. If AOL beta comes out in mid/late summer, you draw the conclusions. It makes perfect sense to me, Gecko will be significantly more stable and probably faster by then (gecko is quite fast and stable as it is right now) BTW, a few weeks ago there were rumors about AOL buying Red Hat. AOL denied it (kind of), but now the story is beginning to make sense. They did not talk to Red Hat about buying the company, but maybe about some big business deal (AOLs backbone running on Red Hat servers). Someone saw AOL execs or tech guys talking to Red Hat execs and techies and drew the "wrong" conclusion then.
