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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 13:29:39 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <17717BDC5S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
- References: <81F83021@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <780173170wnr@innov.demon.co.uk> <9601170023.AA000lo@girvan.demon.co.uk> <290997094wnr@innov.demon.co.uk> <4dp0fu$dre@bandit.cyberwar.com> <19960122.7B55B70.1094B@asd05-25.dial.xs4all.nl>
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- In article <19960122.7B55B70.1094B@asd05-25.dial.xs4all.nl>
- jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen) writes:
-
- >
- >In article <4dp0fu$dre@bandit.cyberwar.com> zool@outland.cyberwar.com (Joshua Galun) writes:
- >> C:WINSOCKKA9QSPOOLMAIL (keith@innov.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >> : They *stated* that all they wanted was to buy the NAME Commodore, to use on
- >> : their PeeCees (the C= name being rather well liked in PeeCee circles abroad,
- >> : aparantly).
- >>
- >> When did they state that? I remember that Escom wouldn't give an
- >> interview to anyone, including Jason Compton, who then theorized that
- >> they only wanted the name for their PCs...
- >
- >In a later interview with the German Amiga Magazin (why am I always quoting that
- >mag? We should set up a group to translate them entirely and upload the old
- >issues to Aminet) Petro Tyschtschenko explains how he was sent on a mission:
- >"Petro, I want the Amiga".
- >
- >Apparently it was considered vital that he moved quietly, and I'm sure that they
- >would never have succeeded if the Commodore Suicide Squad hadn't been under the
- >impression that Escom didn't care about the Amiga. Remember how they almost
- >struck a deal with the UK team near the end? Suddenly the liquidator was
- >unavailable for comment until Ali and Gould came up with their objections.
- >
- >Of course it's easy enough to say *afterwards* that they wanted the Amiga all
- >along, but we do know that Escom didn't hesitate very long to double their price
- >when the acquisition came under fire.
- >
-
- You're right.
-
- Look at it from a different perspective. Would Escom have approached
- the buy-out in this way if they were only in it for the Commodore
- brand name? I don't think so. I they wanted that they would have sold all
- things Amiga as soon as they had acquired it. That's the way it goes in
- the real world. Instead, they set up offices in Bensheim, made new logos,
- started producing A1200s, Magic Packs and A4000s, and are still selling
- them. These are not the things you do when you're just in it for the
- name.
-
- A lot of bad things can be said about Escom (for instance, a used-car-sales-
- man would sue for slander if you called him an Escom sales-man), but I
- for one genuinely believe that they wanted to develop the Amiga further
- from the beginning.
-
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