> -----Original Message----- > From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:51 PM > To: Amir Tal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AOL and RH - True ?? > > > Tal, > > At least get your news straight.. > > AOL will NOT buy RedHat - they don't need to buy them as AOL > got some shares > of RedHat already (from the days Netscape invested in Redhat)
I didn't say buy, said " AOL indeed hire a team from RH as a first step of converting some of their systems to Linux" Do you say the word "buy" in there ?? I am getting my news just fine. The buying issue was discussed last time, not now. I never said that. > > RedHat will help AOL moving SOME of their servers from Sun to > Linux but will > not do the job themselves - There will be a hardware vendor > (my guess is > either IBM or HP) that will do the dirty job and RedHat will > give site > support as well as other support needed. > > That doesn't mean AOL will not have Windows servers there - > there will be tons > of them which will not move to Linux - streaming servers, and > other servers > which are depends on Windows. This is why I said "some of their systems" ... I didn't say "AOL are dumping windows and moving to linux" Tal. > > Hetz > > On Monday 18 March 2002 15:51, Amir Tal wrote: > > Hi IGLU's, > > > > We already discussed this matter a few weeks ago, when ira > posted news > > he saw at The times (I think) about an upcoming merge > between AOL and > > Redhat. This issue was discussed on the list for a few days, and we > > ended up thinking that "it will not happen, at least not in the near > > future"..remember ? > > > > Well - its happening ! > > AOL indeed hire a team from RH as a first step of > converting some of > > their systems to Linux ! I guess that this is not as far as > we first > > figured . > > > > Hebrew post at Whatsup.co.il : > http://whatsup.co.il/article.php?sid=77 > > Story at > reuters.com : > > http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=687652 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Amir Tal, System Administrator > > Whatsup - Linux related news > > And support - in hebrew ! > > icq : 15748705 > > http://www.whatsup.co.il > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > > word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo > > unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
