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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23014)3/21/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: damniseedemons  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Hey guys,

Now that the AOL/NSCP deal has closed, I'd like to go back to the same old question... what the heck did AOL buy for what was finally valued at $10 billion???

-Many Netscape employees (engineers or otherwise) have or will leave due to attrition or layoffs (and note that those repriced options from yesteryear vest on April 15).
-Netscape enterprise software is slowly being handed to Sun.
-Netscape client software is open source, so AOL could have taken it free.
-Netscape Netcenter really isn't that popular (and in fact I'm very suspect about Media Metrix numbers, especially their Work figures*). And if AOL wanted a portal, Excite and Lycos would have been both better and cheaper.

What else? AOL-tv? Did they need Netscape to pull that off?

If anyone has some thoughts here I'd appreciate them. Thanks.

-Sal

*Media Metrix must install software on user machines (their "panel") which takes data--how many and how representative are corporations who let Media Metrix do this? There are also issues with non-representative panels; for example, they get little or no data from newer internet users. Of course, Media Metrix's bad data is spread to all website, so atleast that data has some relativistic context.
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