Brett_Tabke - 2:19 pm on Mar 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

[newsforge.com...]

Sources inside AOL and Red Hat say AOL is making a major internal switch to Linux, and the long-rumored AOL default browser switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla -- or at least Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine -- is well under way

AOL number-crunchers figure they can replace an $80,000 box running proprietary UNIX with two $5,000 Linux boxes and get a 50% increase in performance

we have enough security problems of our own without adding Microsoft's,