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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Fleishman who wrote (14019)	1/27/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: M. Robins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

AOL was mainly interested in owning Netscape's portal (attempting to broaden their coverage to a more "commercial/business" audience). The Netscape software products represent a side of the business that AOL has limited experience with. Sun is the third leg of the stool. With Sun "ensuring" the ongoing viability of the software product set, AOL is free to be the world's most pervasive access, content and services provider. A very sexy, and potential mutually beneficial, menage a trois.