AOL Reportedly in Bid to Buy Linux Maker
WinInfo | at | by Mike
AOL buys Netscape, Netscape goes down the trash, lets hope history repeats!
According to a report this weekend in the Washington Post, AOL Time Warner is in talks to buy leading Linux maker Red Hat Software. If the deal is consummated, the acquisition will give AOL an operating system to challenge Microsoft's market leading Windows, and push the two companies even closer to what is increasingly seen as an inevitable showdown. Microsoft and AOL's many recent moves have often seemed designed to counter each other's expansion plans, but it's unclear whether AOL has the expertise or infrastructure needed to tackle the Windows-dominated desktop and enterprise OS markets.