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To: techreports who wrote (48060)	10/18/2001 11:18:02 AM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

A small group of linux programers have created a program that allows linux to run Windows applications. Last I heard, they could run many Windows applications. It wasn't perfect, but wasn't bad. Not to mention that many users don't need every Windows applications, just the ones they use and Sun's StarOffice covers a lot of those bases.

To: techreports who wrote (48060)	10/18/2001 3:06:42 PM
From: EnricoPalazzo	Respond to of 54805

I mean, what's to stop Aol from not letting users goto ebay.com and possibility sending them to their own service? Will eBay complain? Probably. Will this make a lot of people unhappy? Probably. Does this mean Aol wouldn't try a move like this? No, i don't think so.. At this moment, priority 1 for AOL has to be MSFT (and vice-versa). Both Microsoft & AOL court EBay heavily (with some success on each side). AOL has no interest in offending a crucial ally. Besides, I think that even AOL users know that ebay exists. As Yahoo! & Amazon found, ebay's network is strong enough that users have very little reason to switch.