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

To: Hawk who wrote (7915)	2/15/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: sam	Respond to of 13594

Alot of analysts believe that the increase in monthly rates will ultimately go to the bottom line (although not for some time). IMHO, the key for AOL will be to maintain its dominance in subscribers and leverage that base for more advertising revenue. Or create a new way to mint money. Will they keep all the old subscribers? The answer to that question lies in the answer to some others. Will they manage the transition of the internet from web pages to web channels? No doubt, the internet will change dramatically over the next three to five years. Will AOL be the leader into the new age, or simply another Apple Computer. Will their coming acquisitions be smart and forward-thinking, or simply patches upon their current problematic programing and network infrastructure. I don't know the answer to these questions, but I hope that those buying at todays prices understand that everything has to go better than perfectly for their investment to pay off. And AOL is swimming in shark-infested waters with the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, the baby Bells and every ISP and cable company in the world. AOL may succeed, then again...