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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: ESCOM TO SELL AT!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:40:15 -0700
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151578@cup.portal.com>
- References: <4kjmma$2jo@kdcol.kdcol.com> <Dpr5qB.DL9@news.uwindsor.ca>
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- >In article <4kjmma$2jo@kdcol.kdcol.com>,
- >Kerry Hales <maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com> wrote:
- >>VISCORP USA AND ESCOM AG ANNOUNCE LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING FOR ACQUISITION
- >>OF AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES BY VISCORP</H2>
- >>
- >>Heppenheim, Germany and Chicago, IL, April 12, 1996 -- ESCOM AG, a German
- >>computer manufacturer and reseller and Visual Information Services Corp.
- >>(Nasdaq: VICP, Bulletin Board), a developer of interactive TV (ITV)
- >>set-top-boxes to enhance television use and viewing by providing Internet
- >>access and electronic communications function, today jointly announced that
- >>a binding letter of understanding has been signed between the companies.
- >>
- >>The letter states that Chicago-based VIScorp would acquire Amiga
- >>Technologies, including the intellectual properties of the former Commodore
- >>Business Machines, excepted Commodore trademarks. The transaction value is
- >>approximately US $40 million. Terms were not disclosed, and the pending
- >>acquisition would be subject to approval by both companies' boards of
- >>directors.
- >
- >This is a joke right? $40 million for AT including intellectual properties
- >(except the Commodore trademark). Gee, didn't ESCOM get the whole shebang
- >for $10 million US? Nice return on thier initial investment.
- >
- >Anyways, I didn't see any mention of the North American market, unless
- >Amigans are expected to buy set-top Electronic Devices to run our
- >applications ;) If it means lower prices because of higher volume, I'm for it.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Yours truly,
- >
- >Adam Szymczak, BA Master of Arts in Geography (Urban Planning)
- >szymcza@server.uwindsor.ca University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
-
- Amiga Technologies has NOT been disbanded and work continues on Walker and
- the Power Amiga!
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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