Edited sentence: AOL's new marketing strategy is to dump the access (dial-up) business and proceed to generate all revenue through ads (known as the audience market internally to AOL management).AOL's technical strategy has been to acquire companies, harvest their technology and quickly discard the employees of the acquired company.This strategy has led to a tremendous amount of legacy code that current AOL engineers neither understand nor are interested in supporting.This strategy has resulted in the inability of AOL to employ and retain high quality development personnel