[Am-info] AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Paul Rickard on 1/19/02 7:27 PM ---

>========== On 2002.01.19 01:30 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>>This development is really puzzling. What possible use could AOL-TW have 
>>for Red Hat? About as much as they did for Netscape? Even less, I'd 
>>think, since they don't get any unique technology from Red Hat.
>
>    Doesn't make any sense to me, either. Unless RedHat is doing 
>something I haven't heard of. Why spend that kind of money to bury it in 
>the same place they buried Netscape and ICQ? Unless that is one of 
>Microsoft's demands in some kind of contract, which is what rumors said 
>was AOL's real reason for buying Netscape. But the AOL icon is gone from 
>XP anyway, so that wouldn't fit in this case.

The only connection I can fathom is the internet appliance deal they were 
doing Gateway. They were to be powered by Linux. The article suggests 
that these products actually shipped, but I haven't heard a thing about 
them since they were first shown as prototypes nearly two years ago.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com