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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve lipson who wrote (6542)	12/19/1997 3:12:00 PM
From: Tim Kenney	Respond to of 13594

>By the standards you purportedly use to evaluate AOL, they should hardly even merit discussion, much less so many dire warnings about when things are going to hit the fan.< Ah, you show one of the telltale signs of an inexperienced investor. You confuse a company's desirability as an investment with its ability to pose formidable competition. I would not invest in @Home, but I certainly would not want to be investing against them. With the backing of major cable companies, @Home will be around a long, long time even if it were to never make a dime. The future is here and it is represented by cable companies, @Home, and WebTV. They will become as ubiquitious as AOL is now, and since ubiquity was the only thing AOL ever had going for it, it is most definitely not sitting pretty.