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- From: dorhout@swisun30 (Bert Dorhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VisiCorp paid $40m - why?
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 12:33:28 GMT
- Organization: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology
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- hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser) writes:
-
- >Phil Kernick (philk@dhn.csiro.au) wrote:
- >: Escom paid $12m for the remains of C=. Now they are selling just AmigaTech
- >: for $40m, while keeping the C= name for their PC division in Germany.
-
- >: SO WHY DIDN'T VISICORP BUY THE WHOLE OF COMMODORE?
-
- >: I don't mean to shout, but this has been screaming out and noone has asked
- >: it yet. They could have had it all for 1/3 of the price, and then sold the
- >: C= name to Escom.
-
- >: As I said, something just isn't what it seems.
-
-
- >: Phil.
-
- >: --
- >Escom paid $12million for a dead company who was making absolutely
- >nothing. They got all the technology, blueprints, patents,
- >trademarks, copyrights, and piles of assembled machines and
- >parts scattered across six continents.
-
- >VIScorp (not VISICORP) is allegedly paying $40million for
- >a fully functioning company, Amiga Technologies. With 40-50
- >people working in Germany. Who are making computers, producing
- >computers, and shipping computers. Who are also designing next
- >generation computers.
-
- I think the original poster means to ask why VIScorp ddn't buy
- the whole of Commodore at the auction a year ago. It has been
- er... wondered about by other people too in this newsgroup.
- I have no idea myself, but perhaps VIScorp was a much smaller
- company back then, and perhaps not even depending on Amiga
- Technology as much as they do today? *SHRUG*
-
- Bert
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- Name: Bert Dorhout
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