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- From: pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Patricia Snyder-Rayl)
- Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:44:43 GMT
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- In talking about how great the ST is in the MIDI market, the writer also
- mentioned there's been a lot of rights-swapping for the MIDI software.
- That's precisely because Atari has allowed this market to get into this
- horribly bad state. Large companies with, say, 5 full time employees,
- couldn't make enough money in the ST market anymore to pay for those
- employees, so they moved on. The authors of the software then took back
- the rights for the ST version, and are now marketing it out of their
- garages.
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- Look at the trends, people. Companies can't make enough to support
- themselves on single products anymore, and they've done two things to
- stay alive: Add other products (for example CodeHeads) or branch out into
- other markets. I heard recently that ISD is making a version of Calamus
- for Windows. Charles and John have made no secret about the fact that
- CodeHead Software used to bring in more money handling only 1 program than
- they do now carrying over 10.
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- Atari is not currently producing much product to sell. Their stock is
- barely staying above a dollar.
-
- Atari has approximately $50 million cash and 50 million shares of stock.
- (From a stockholder's viewpoint, the stock is worth about an eighth of a
- dollar (12.5 cents) per share. Last time I checked the stock was trading
- at 1 and 1/8th.) Atari has sold off most of its real estate holdings and
- other properties. The Lynx was their largest selling product, and their
- largest account for that, Toys R US, has dropped them.
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- Pattie Rayl
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