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I would not be suprised at all if netscape goes nowhere. Jim Barksdale and Marc Andreeson must be sitting pretty. Rumor has it Marc Andreeson is leaving to join an internet startup and is currently on leave from Netscape. richard winter wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: WC:>: AOL-Netscape > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:50:02 -0800 > From: "Andreas Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>Report: America Online in works to buy Netscape > > This started already last week when Netscape fired all of their contractors. > The deal apparently is done; just a matter of the final details. > > AOL bought Netscape's portal for nothing (swap stock and take over it, thus > basically get their stock back again.) Since SUN gets the servers and the > browser is worthless since it's public domain, AOL gets the brand name and > the portal. AOL's interface will be the Netscape browser. Will Netscape > users abandon the Netscape browser? Will Netscape True Believers become AOL > users? Time to polish off those AOL diskettes. > > What a sad end to Netscape. Already in early 1998, I heard VCs at > conferences describe Netscape as a Dead Man Walking. Marc Andreassen sold > off a large chunk of his stock; that was bad news. Recruiters didn't bother > with Netscape since they were on a hiring freeze. In the Spring, they fired > all of their contractors; there were rumors that they would be bought by IBM > or a consortium including SUN. By the summer, we would often wonder who > would buy Netscape and whether it was worth buying at all. > > What an irony. Remember when AOL users were newbies and AOL had to teach its > users how to post on Usenet without being flamed? AOL, the ultimate luser > company, now owns Netscape. > > It's not a marriage; it's serial killer rape. AOL's CEO Steve Case testified > at the Microsoft trial how they misled Netscape to the alter and then left > them waiting there while AOL took the Microsoft browser and $1 million. > Netscape employees must be quite aware of how AOL screwed them. I doubt many > of them will stay. UNIX engineers working for AOL? It'll look really great > on the resume. But then again, AOL doesn't want the employees. They bought > the name and the portal. AOL will dismember Netscape. > ___________________________________________________ > Andreas Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andreas.com > > ____________________________________________________________________ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now > Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants > If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done > directly from our website for all our lists. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
