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

[Felmon Davis]

On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:11 pm, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.01.20 03:59 PM, madodel@ptdprolog.net typed:

>[...]
>      They apparently have it (see the Gateway appliance message)
> but it isn't available to the general public, far as I know. But
> more receptive over Linux than over the ISP? Doubtful. What is AOL
> going to do, drop Windows support in favor of Linux? That's handing
> the market to MSN. I see no way for AOL to leverage RedHat against
> Microsoft more than RedHat itself already leverages its products
> against them.

I'm wondering a couple of things:

(a) AOL does servers and broadband. could they offer these services 
more cheaply to business using Linux (if they don't already)? 

(b) They could do whatever without having RedHat but wouldn't they 
like some brandname recognition and a cute logo?

(c) On a different part of the thread (or thread of the skein?), 
aside from the licensing of Linux, what are the two or three 
_technical_ deficiencies(briefly!) it has that make it a poor 
operating system in some people's minds?

say, is the stockmarket open tomorrow?

Felmon