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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VisiCorp paid $40m - why?
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 00:27:15 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <892.6684T1032T2695@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >Something really doesn't add up here.
- >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.
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- You know, I vaguely remember something about a CA company hanging around the
- auction but bowing out due to a lack of big time cash. I also remember
- hearing something about a CA company noising around much earlier in the
- auction process as well. Perhaps that was VIScorp and they had actually
- given it a go back then and since gotten a nice cash flow going (I really
- wonder how, how can they afford it and not big clone maker AT?).
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