Here is Jon Miller’s email to all AOL employees

Good evening, everyone.

If you are still up and online, you’ve just seen the e-mail from Ted announcing his plans for what he calls "the next phase of my life." I just want to say a few things about this news.

We owe Ted an enormous debt of gratitude. For his wisdom, and for his incredible strategic sense. For the way he has always understood what is special about AOL and the responsibilities we have to millions of people. For his incredible warmth. And for his having worked as hard as any of us long past a moment when he had to.

On my second day here, within hours of meeting Ted, I asked him to step into a full-time management role. He did so with gusto, working tirelessly ever since to make AOL better. We also talked over the years about a time when he would not have to carry these many responsibilities. And we talked about how even when Ted stepped back from line management, we wanted him to be available to all of us in a role that is of immense value — as strategist, visionary, and conscience of AOL. And so it now will be.

To those who work in the Audience Business, I urge you not to be concerned about what this means directly for you. Within the next several days, we will be updating you, and the whole company, on some organizational changes that have been crafted with Ted’s active participation.

We will have Ted working with us full-time between now and the end of the year. But he will continue to be here long after January 1.

For the moment though, let’s reflect on how fortunate we all are to know Ted and to work with him. It’s not often that human beings come in such a package — brilliance tempered by kindness, seriousness of purpose matched with incredible good humor, a real work ethic combined with a sense of what life is all about.

How lucky we are to have had Ted doing what he has done for us, and for what he will continue to do for us.

Warmly,

Jon