----- Original Message ----- From: "ABrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:40 PM Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:08:32 -0500 > Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > > From: ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:13:41 -0800 > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > > > > > what is the odds of aohell buying out RH? > > > > > > Presuming everybody has a price, and presuming AHoleL sees a strong > > > possibility of immediate absorbtion of a number of established > > > users, I'd say pretty good chances. > > > > > > It depends on the price RH is willing to accept, and the price > > > AHoleL is willing to pay. > > > > > > I'm not certain what you mean by "absorbtion of a number of > > established users" - I really doubt you'd see many Linux users switch > > to using AOL as their ISP just because AOL bought Red Hat. Or did you > > mean something else? Of course, both of you (and myself) already > > support them since we're using Time Warner's Road Runner service. > > I don't mean Redhat users would jump to using AOL. I mean that the total > numbers of users using _something_ belonging to AOL would see an > immediate increase. That's something that looks good to investors and > advertisers. It also looks god in a number of other ways that enhance > the coporate position. > > If it's a war between M$ and AOL, they need numbers of users to compete, > plus revenue, assets, liquidity, etc. Raising the numbers and adding the > sales adds to the overall picture. > *snip* Hrmm, this would be interesting. AOL buying an open source business, MS's trusest threat (Open source) _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
