[Am-info] AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer

[Erick Andrews]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:55:23 -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:

>Not an announcement, exactly, but a rumor. A good rumor.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24364.html
>
>AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer
>By Robin Miller, NewsForge.com
>Posted: 11/03/2002 at 13:15 GMT
>
>Sources inside AOL and Red Hat say AOL is making a major internal switch 
>to Linux, and the long-rumored AOL default browser switch from Microsoft's 
>Internet Explorer to Mozilla -- or at least Mozilla's Gecko rendering 
>engine -- is well under way, but AOL will probably not offer an AOL client 
>for Linux in the forseeable future.

Sure.  Another piece from this AM's Boston Globe from our-not-so-liked-journalist
Mr Bray, kinda supports more inroads Linux is making...which I find basically 
believable -- not just adverse for Sun, but MS as well.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/070/business/Sun_rise_or_Sun_set+.shtml

It's about medium sized businesses not paying for expensive computing.  I think 
it's the thing that is coming and it will continue to chip away at proprietary stuff.

-- 
Erick Andrews