“ For the very first time in decades, CompuServe started losing revenue,
and at a prodigious rate. Recent U.S. versions of the CompuServe client program-fundamentally an improved Web
browser-applied the Gecko structure engine (created for Mozilla) inside
of a derivative of the AOL client and working with the AOL
dialup community. While dividing CompuServe into its two key
businesses, CompuServe Information Services and CompuServe Network Services, WorldCom and AOL both sought after to
make use of the CompuServe title and logos. Sidgmore stated at this time that the
world was in harmony: the accountants were performing taxes,
AOL was accomplishing information and facts solutions, and WorldCom was doing networks.
Consequently, a jointly owned keeping enterprise was formed for no other purpose than to possess title to many logos, patents and other mental home,
and to license that intellectual assets at no expense to both of
those WorldCom (now Verizon) and AOL. WorldCom's freshly
acquired CompuServe Network Services was renamed WorldCom Advanced Networks, and ongoing to function as a discrete organization in WorldCom right after
remaining merged with AOL's community subsidiary, ANS, and an current WorldCom networking business
named Gridnet. ”