[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Christian, is AOL going to go belly-up?
:-) I hope not! > I simply cannot understand how they > can offer it free if one has broadband. Even broadband from another source. I > am debating getting broadband, and then going with free AOL, since the price > would come out about the same. At first I was concerned I'd lose my ftp > space, > but they said I wouldn't. Google, Yahoo... those bastards aren't going anywhere. It's all about the advertising these days. AOL figures they can go from a subscription-based service (peak ~30million subscribers, each paying ~$20/month) to an ad-revenue based "content" company. Revenue has gone up every quarter despite the loss of paying customers (we are asking them to cancel the subscription, while allowing them to keep their email addresses/screen names). WE just got a new CEO, some guy named Falco (Rock me, Amadeus) from NBC... let's see if his advertising genius can really put us out there. The thing is, AOL has the products/features AND the delivery system... Sure, in the 2.5 years I've worked for the company, I've seen several thousand job reductions. Many were parts of the company that were sold off so there was no net job loss for the actual employees. Many others are house cleaning of the deadwood. I have not seen quality employees laid off. > > What's going on here, huh? Do you see signs of a belly-up situation for AOL > in the future? No. :-) We are actually doing quite well. Christian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
