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To: lml who wrote (3572)	12/27/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 29970

lml You hit the nail right on the head. Thanks, Greg

To: lml who wrote (3572)	12/27/1998 9:07:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

The game AOL is playing is similar to what MSFT has been playing -- control or tremendous influence over what we see when we "connect" online. Yes, I agree. However, if this is the only thing they obtained, I am not sure they would have purchased Netscape instead of working a strategic partnership with them along the lines of their recent agreement with Sun and Dell. I think a major reason for the Netscape move is to penetrate the business market, which is a daytime market, complementary to the evening consumer market. After all, what good is that excess modem and server capacity between 8 and 5?

To: lml who wrote (3572)	12/28/1998 3:53:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

By acquiring NSCP, AOL is now gains immediate access to a large percentage of Internet surfers who presently don not rely upon the AOL gateway. This is not coherent. AOL doesn't gain a thing. You say they gain surfers who don't rely on AOL gateway. I don't understand your statement. I assume it means if AOL owns the NSCP browser, they can start excluding new subscribers from using MSFT's browser. AOL stated they had no such intent. They couldn't do it anyway. Must not mean that. How about new subscribers will choose AOL as their ISP because AOL owns NSCP. Huh? I see the thread has picked up another collection of publicy inspired amateur traders. This would be the fifth wave. Guess we're getting close to a correction and a weeding out of the useless dross.