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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: ESCOM Press Release
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:24:56 GMT
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- Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
-
- : But during the year 1995 it looked much more promising. When I spent
- : my first time at Escom in early 1995, economy here was improving at a
- : dramatic speed. Yes, improving. At that time, Escom just had had closed
- : The trend lasted until ca. autumn of 1995, when the first new A1200's
- : hit the shelves. Then, completely surprising (at least to me, and I
- : didn't see any announcement of some economics expert before that),
- : this trend stopped, and hardly anyone in Europe bought computers anymore.
- : This hit Escom in the worst possible moment. So I also don't put the
- : blame on Manfred Schmitt, at the time this all looked very reasonable,
- : at least to me.
-
- Nobody is saying the man was an idiot or acted cravenly. But his moves
- WERE gambles and apparently someone was unhappy with the way they got the
- payout.
-
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