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

To: Thomas P. Friend who wrote (7311)	2/10/1998 8:16:00 AM
From: Hawk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Glad you posted, Its good to see a bull. I understand much of what your saying, specially about ease of use. But I feel this will change soon with many ISP will go to the ease of use route. Also, as users become more sophisticated this will not be such a big issue, specially with kids. If this was such a lucrative business, Microsoft would have persued it much more aggressively. I'm not saying that there no place in the market for AOL. Only that what the street is valuing the stock is ridiculous, hoping for earnings that may never materialize. It is also obvious from constant game plan changes that AOL themselves have not figured out how to make money from their 11 million subscribers. 11 million subscribers is great, however, if they don't produce for the bottom line who cares. Thats why I invest in stocks, increasing earnings and a clear plan to keep doing so. H.