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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp, Escom, Commodore
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:55:32 -0700
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
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- > Escom bought the Amiga and people said similar things - have faith, wait, see
- > what they will do. So far, not a lot of reason has surfaced why Escom deserved
- > any faith in the first place.
-
- If you had even a remote idea of what it takes to do what AT has accomplished in one
- year you would not feel as you do.
-
- > Why NOT? How long will we long suffering supporters wait? How long will an ever
- > shrinking market wait? How long will it take to stop a "dead machine" attitude
- > amongst the prospective buyers on other platforms at this stage. If you think
- > that 6 months is too short then you arent looking at these things. If they DONT
- > get something out in that time with this added 2nd buyout stigma, they may as
-
- You will not have to wait any longer than you would have if Escom had not sold.
- Remember, AT is it's own company. Companies are bought and sold every day and nothing of
- any import to it's customers changes. I'll repeat this example:
-
- A friend of mine worked for a company that makes switching systems for the internet. Lotus
- bought the company. What changed? He gets better benefits. Then IBM bought Lotus. What
- changed? He gets better benefits. If you hadn't heard about all this in the news you would
- never know because to the customer NOTHING changed. Another example. As you may know Corel,
- who claims to be the second biggest software in the world, bought Word Perfect. What changed?
- The Word Perfect products say Corel on them instead of Word Perfect. Relax, and take it easy.
- It'll be all right.
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- Robert S Iacullo
- eagle@serv.net
- http://www.serv.net/~eagle
- TeamAMIGA
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