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- From: me95jln@ing.umu.se (Jonas Larsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: AT to be sold to VIScorp!!!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 12:11:29 GMT
- Organization: Umeσ Universitet
- Message-ID: <4klh9h$6nu@studium.student.umu.se>
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- Yep it's true!
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- In a 40 million dollar deal ESCOM sells AT to newly aquired licencee VIScorp.
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- Check out INFOWORLD, AT's and VIScorps websites.
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- This is a snip from INFOWORLD:
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- (BIIIG Siiiiighhh, what is becoming of the Amiga?????)
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- By InfoWorld Staff
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- Posted at 3:45 p.m., PT, April 11
- Financially troubled German PC retailer Escom AG said Thursday that it
- will sell its Amiga Technologies GmbH subsidiary to Visual Information
- Services Corp. (VIScorp) of Chicago in a $40 million transaction. Escom
- acquired the Commodore and Amiga computer technology, patents,
- intellectual properties, and brand names in April 1995 for $10 million at a
- bankruptcy auction for Commodore International, which filed for
- liquidation in 1994. Escom earlier this year itself reported losses of $85
- million for 1995, prompting founder Manfred Schmitt to resign last month.
- Selling Amiga will allow Escom to better concentrate on its core business of
- PC retailing, Escom said in a statement. VIScorp, which makes set-top
- boxes, will acquire the Amiga and Commodore technology and intellectual
- property, but not the Commodore brand names, Escom said.
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- /Jonas Larsson, Mediaengineer, Umeσ University, Sweden
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