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Lord Sullivan

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11-06-2008 08:45

From: someone

Originally Posted by Vendar Beika
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This is the same thing AOL did

in 1995 AOL needed X amount of dollars $$$ to upgrade the infrastructure. But AOL only had Y amount of dollars $$$ which was about 1/8 of the money $$$$ required to meet the needs of the planned and badly needed upgrades for the existing AOL customers

So AOL decided to spend X on a major nation wide television advertising campaign saying "AOL now 19.95 a month!!!!"

Well every one and their grandma signed up, and guess what the loyal and "connected" AOL users could not log in for weeks!!!
nor could the new people that had just signed up.

Now AOL had the money for the equipment upgrade and they profusely apologized to customers for "underestimating" the response to the special (sound familliar?)

AOL frantically spent loads of the new found cash on the infrastructure and in 3 months AOL was back to its same level of performance only with many more customers and a lot more hardware and bandwidth

AOL even placed some ads on TV again saying "Sorry we fixed it now"

OK I am not biting this sour bait at appealing the masses you guys are lame as AOL with this move..

Thanks a good reminder there I wonder if all this is also related to this blog post here

http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/10/28/ongoing-updates-from-the-grid-from-fj-linden/

From: someone

We’ve finalized a design and chosen facility and equipment partners to build and deploy a private fiber optic ring to interconnect our datacenters. “LLnet” will be the designation of our private network and we have established an aggressive timeframe to activate it. I’m pushing hard to bring LLnet online by the end of this year (’0

Seems an AOL repeat here at LL with upgrading the infrastructure and with an ex AOL'er here at LL it makes you wonder doesn't it

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eku Zhong

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11-06-2008 09:40

walks like a duck for me ^^

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Lord Sullivan

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11-06-2008 10:23

From: eku Zhong

walks like a duck for me ^^

Yeah quite a penny drop for me when i saw it, well maybe i am wrong but you never know and based on the way LL conducts it's business as seen in these forums of late, nothing would surprise me

I can just imagine the board meeting with Mr ex AOL saying well we did it at AOL so we can use the same trick here and fool these people into paying us more money and then we can get our LLnet in place. Looking over the time period this has all played out over it wouldn't surprise me as maybe the venture capital boys have pulled the reins in a bit and LL needs this new infrastructure as did AOL and what a great way to raise it by scamming us all yet again, except this time people have had enough of their antics and are now really getting to grips with the LL bulls**t.

Just my opinion

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11-06-2008 11:34

From: eku Zhong

the time frame fits too...
enter M.... Openspace scramble is on ... lots of lolly comes in
and WHAMMO

Yep i know strange eh? But as ever we will never know the truth as so many are rightly angry at what has happened to many are accepting what they are told by LL without perhaps looking at alternative reasons as to why it has happened

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Is this nearer the truth for the price rises???
Lord Sullivan DTC at all times :) Join date: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 2,870	11-06-2008 08:45 /356/24/291220/50.html#post2210831 From: someone Originally Posted by Vendar Beika <SNIPPED> This is the same thing AOL did in 1995 AOL needed X amount of dollars $$$ to upgrade the infrastructure. But AOL only had Y amount of dollars $$$ which was about 1/8 of the money $$$$ required to meet the needs of the planned and badly needed upgrades for the existing AOL customers So AOL decided to spend X on a major nation wide television advertising campaign saying "AOL now 19.95 a month!!!!" Well every one and their grandma signed up, and guess what the loyal and "connected" AOL users could not log in for weeks!!! nor could the new people that had just signed up. Now AOL had the money for the equipment upgrade and they profusely apologized to customers for "underestimating" the response to the special (sound familliar?) AOL frantically spent loads of the new found cash on the infrastructure and in 3 months AOL was back to its same level of performance only with many more customers and a lot more hardware and bandwidth AOL even placed some ads on TV again saying "Sorry we fixed it now" OK I am not biting this sour bait at appealing the masses you guys are lame as AOL with this move.. Thanks a good reminder there I wonder if all this is also related to this blog post here http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/10/28/ongoing-updates-from-the-grid-from-fj-linden/ From: someone We’ve finalized a design and chosen facility and equipment partners to build and deploy a private fiber optic ring to interconnect our datacenters. “LLnet” will be the designation of our private network and we have established an aggressive timeframe to activate it. I’m pushing hard to bring LLnet online by the end of this year (’0 Seems an AOL repeat here at LL with upgrading the infrastructure and with an ex AOL'er here at LL it makes you wonder doesn't it _____________________ Independent Shopping for Second Life residents from established and new merchants. http://slapt.me slapt.me - In-World HQ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bastet/123/118/26
eku Zhong Apocalips = low prims Join date: 27 May 2008 Posts: 752	11-06-2008 09:40 walks like a duck for me ^^ _____________________ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Apocalips%20Japan/111/78/24?
Lord Sullivan DTC at all times :) Join date: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 2,870	11-06-2008 10:23 From: eku Zhong walks like a duck for me ^^ Yeah quite a penny drop for me when i saw it, well maybe i am wrong but you never know and based on the way LL conducts it's business as seen in these forums of late, nothing would surprise me I can just imagine the board meeting with Mr ex AOL saying well we did it at AOL so we can use the same trick here and fool these people into paying us more money and then we can get our LLnet in place. Looking over the time period this has all played out over it wouldn't surprise me as maybe the venture capital boys have pulled the reins in a bit and LL needs this new infrastructure as did AOL and what a great way to raise it by scamming us all yet again, except this time people have had enough of their antics and are now really getting to grips with the LL bulls**t. Just my opinion _____________________ Independent Shopping for Second Life residents from established and new merchants. http://slapt.me slapt.me - In-World HQ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bastet/123/118/26
Lord Sullivan DTC at all times :) Join date: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 2,870	11-06-2008 11:34 From: eku Zhong the time frame fits too... enter M.... Openspace scramble is on ... lots of lolly comes in and WHAMMO Yep i know strange eh? But as ever we will never know the truth as so many are rightly angry at what has happened to many are accepting what they are told by LL without perhaps looking at alternative reasons as to why it has happened _____________________ Independent Shopping for Second Life residents from established and new merchants. http://slapt.me slapt.me - In-World HQ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bastet/123/118/26

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