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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 19:46:15 GMT
- Organization: Home in Bucks,UK
- Message-ID: <9601241946.AA006vh@startide.demon.co.uk>
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- Kevin Taddeucci (kevint@sr.hp.com) led us to believe
- in <4e0s8v$g1h@canyon.sr.hp.com> that...
- > Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
-
- > > Chances are someone (and a large important someone) would pick up Apple.
- > > One view is that they COULD do well if they got rid of upper management.
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- > Actually I heard on a news report the other day that Apple was looking
- > for a buyer but nobody was intrested in paying the price Apple was
- > asking. Including Hewlett Packard.
-
- > NOTE: This is from a news source. I have no inside information and
- > don't even know if HP is intrested in Apple.
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- A newspaper report I saw today (24/1/96) said that Sun and Apple are back
- talking to each other about a takeover. IBM and Oracle were also mentioned
- as possible interested parties. The report also said that Sun werely mainly
- interested in MacOS, not the hardware, which is understandable if MacOS goes
- CHRP.
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- richard@startide.demon.co.uk : Richard Lavey on a Dial-Up Account
- * I know that this is vitriol, no solution spleen-venting *
- * But I feel better having screamed, Don't You ? *
- * R.E.M. "Ignoreland" *
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