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- From: "Chris \"Big Kahuna\" Rampson" <crampson@ford.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp to buy AT!
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:06:57 -0400
- Organization: ECC at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn Michigan
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- Robert Fentiman wrote:
- >
- > On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:55:04 GMT Digita International (info@digita.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > :Has everyone heard the news that Escom are planning to sell Amiga
- > :Technologies to Viscorp? (Check out AT`s home page for more info.).
- >
- > :Doesn`t look good.
- >
- > Just wonder what "doesn't look good" about it. Right now AT is owned by
- > a company who'se survival depends on selling PC clones, and that's where
- > they'll put their money first. VIScorp has said they want to base their
- > products on the Amiga, as well as continue currently planned development
- > on the platform, while still supplying the current line of machines to
- > the market. I'd rather have a company whose betting their survival on
- > the Amiga running it than one who primarily bought the product to see if
- > they can expand their current market. Besides, from the sound of it,
- > ESCOM and VIScorp will still be working together, and people at AT will
- > still be working there.
-
- Isn't it a good thing if a company is willing to pay $40 million dollars
- for a company that Escom picked up for $10 mil (just for the C=
- trademark - remember?).
-
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