o darn, i thought natalya was asking why aol put out so many, 5.5xxxx 5.9xxxx u knwo?
but i think she was saying why are there so many variations on the program. well, gaim, miranda, and trillian, they are yahoo, msn,icq, all in one.
netscape is for the browser so it can be intergrated. the normal aim is for people who dont want the nice, slightly feature loaded, and system resource hog triton.