>
> At 10:13 PM -0800 11/22/98, Suzanne Stephens wrote:
> >http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/22/aol.netscape/
> >
> >Report: America Online in works to buy Netscape
>
>
> WOW -- thanks, suz -- and more:
Not very good news, I suspect.
> Monday. But the person said that under one
> scenario the $4 billion, all-stock transaction
> would leave AOL to run Netscape's "Netcenter" Web site and to distribute
> Netscape's popular
> Web browser, the software that lets people view information on the Internet.
>
> Sun Microsystems, in turn, would benefit in two ways: It would take control
> of Netscape's business-level "server" software, and it would enjoy
> widespread distribution among AOL's 14 million subscribers of its Java
> technology for running Internet programs.
The problem is that AOL has other axes to grind. Netscape will not
be its primary business, and will be warped towards supporting AOL's brand
of business, rather than the more general support of the internet. How
fast the warpage takes place... I don't know.
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