{"id":5479,"date":"1996-03-13T17:42:04","date_gmt":"1996-03-13T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commadot.com\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2014-12-24T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:23:11","slug":"aol-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/aol-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recovered from Archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

America Online<\/a> is kicking ass. I think we all remember not too long ago when AOL<\/a> was in third place behind Compuserve<\/a> and Prodigy<\/a>. Now with 5 million members, AOL is wheelin’ and dealin’ with the big boys.<\/p>\n

Both<\/i><\/b> Microsoft<\/a> and Netscape<\/a> have sent out press releases claiming alliances with AOL<\/a>. (See Netscape release<\/i><\/a> & Microsoft release<\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

This is very strange since AOL<\/a> plans (I assume) to have only one proprietary web browser. As I see it there are two possibilities:<\/p>\n

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  1. America Online<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0partner giving AOL a much needed boost in their World Wide Web browser and a prime spot on the\u00a0Windows 95<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0desktop.\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in turn would get 5 million new customers to their Internet Explorer browser. How this will affect the\u00a0Microsoft Network<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is still up for grabs. This possibilty will throw\u00a0Netscape<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0off the top of the mountain before 1998.<\/li>\n
  2. America Online<\/a>\u00a0goes with\u00a0Netscape<\/a>\u00a0as their proprietary browser. This would \u00a0I’ve\u00a0AOL<\/a>\u00a0a much needed boost in their World Wide Web Browser.\u00a0(Am I being redundant?)\u00a0<\/i>The partnership would benefit\u00a0Netscape<\/a>\u00a0by giving them 5 million new customers, but let’s face it, Netscape Navigator has 70% of the market already; 5 million isn’t going to make or break them. The real benefit is in the battle with\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0. Its image. Who has the best browser?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The truth is: Browsers aren’t profitable. They are loss leaders. Netscape<\/a>and Microsoft <\/a>make their money selling internet and network software. The browser has been used to get attention for the internet software.Netscape<\/a> has built itself into a internet behemoth by giving away great browsers. They want to make money<\/b> however selling their other products.<\/p>\n

    Keep a close eye on this alliance. It will spell the beginning of the end for the Mountain View Men<\/i> or a significant setback for the Redmond Riders<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recovered from Archive.org. America Online is kicking ass. I think we all remember not too long ago when AOL was in third place behind Compuserve and Prodigy. Now with 5 million members, AOL is wheelin’ and dealin’ with the big boys. Both Microsoft and Netscape have sent out press releases claiming alliances with AOL. (See […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"AOL Possibilities","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8HO7-1qn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commadot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}