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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT to be sold to VIScorp!!!
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 09:23:34 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4kqg6m$9mv@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4klh9h$6nu@studium.student.umu.se>
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- Summary: Hold it now!
- Keywords: Brand names?
-
- In article <4klh9h$6nu@studium.student.umu.se>,
- Jonas Larsson <me95jln@ing.umu.se> wrote:
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- >By InfoWorld Staff
- >
- > 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, UmeĎ University, Sweden
-
- Does that mean JUST the Commodore NAME and the LOGO like they were
- interested in in the first place or are they ALSO keeping the Amiga name
- also as it IS a "Commodore Brand Name". That way Escom would not only
- benefit from the Commodore name but they could still sell PPCP computers
- with the name Amiga and keep the "Power Amiga" name - it would use
- standard PC parts anyways.
-
- In other questions, what about the Amiga patents and excuse me for
- asking.. who still has the rights to the C64 technology now? :)
-
- -=*George*=-
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