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At the time AOL was planning to shut down the Silicon Valley site and preferred to have everything in Virginia. Additionally they were already in talks with Ti
by fallous 8y ago
At the time AOL was planning to shut down the Silicon Valley site and preferred to have everything in Virginia. Additionally they were already in talks with Time Warner (which internally we knew about).
There was a lot of redundancy in ops between AOL and Netscape, and AOL's talks with Time Warner made it apparent that their belief was that content and subscriber base was their future, not software... which is where I was at the time.
- skrebbel 8y agoBut then why did they buy Netscape?
- jpalomaki 8y agoProbably for the user base. IIRC Netscape switched from focusing on software to providing portal on the web. The browser became a tool for getting people to their start page.
- fallous 8y agoYep. Remember also that sites were paying browser makers to include their site as either the default homepage or included in the list of bookmarks.