AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer

[umbro]

Interesting ...

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?...52&mode=thread

[duster]

Interesting ...

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?...52&mode=thread

very interesting article. microsoft is slowly loosing the battle. i hope more companys switch to linux.

[jamrock]

There is another aspect to this story. While Linux is making great strides on servers, it still has a ways to go on the desktop.

Perhaps one of the world's many stalwart Linux entrepreneurs will eventually convince AOL management that an AOL-branded, consumer-priced Linux box is a good idea. Otherwise, AOL will probably stick to the current corporate operating system pattern: Linux in the server room, Windows or Mac on user desktops -- except that AOL-ized desktops will run the AOL browser and its Mozilla rendering engine instead of Microsoft Explorer.

I still use Linux on servers and Windows on workstations. Let us see how this changes over time.

[leoandru]

very interesting article. microsoft is slowly loosing the battle. i hope more companys switch to linux.

I'm not sure if I understand that argument, They did say that AOL was switching from expensive UNIX servers to Linux. I don't think windows was in this picture.