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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL)
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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (12451)4/23/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: Dr. Zax  Read Replies (6) of 41369
 
A comment on a future possibility

Here is a thought. First some facts:
- Currently if you buy a sub $1000 PC almost half of the price (minus the distributors profits) is paying MSFT for Windows and any other MSFT products that come on the system.
- The Techie public and some of the general public are becoming more and more fed up with their lack of choice in operating systems. - Windows really doesn't work that well. It crashes often and there are better technologies out there.
- SUNW and AOL have a partnership... that I would bet IBM would like to be in on, SUNW and IBM are already buddy buddy anyway.
- AOL wants to give away computers with a year or two year subscription to its services.
- SUNW wants to introduce a JAVA or Linux based operating system

All the pieces are there!! If they play their cards right AOL could very well beat microsoft to the $1 trillion market cap position. Here is the plan let me know what you think:

IBM and SUNW finish their operating system. It will be free for a couple of years as this is the only way to take out windows. AOL obtains PCs with new SUNW operating system cheap (maybe made by DELL?) because they don't have to pay MSFT $300 for windows. AOL then gives these PCs away to new members. SUNW benefits as they have a means of getting their new operating system into the mainstream and competing with windows for real. AOL gains customers, add revenue, and more diversity in its business. IBM gains a foothold in the new operating system that will take out or at least share with MSFT. The public gets a better operating system than Windows.
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