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  2. Newsgroups: aus.followup
  3. Subject: Re: Australian Products
  4. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.083459.165635@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
  5. From: pjk@mod.dsto.gov.au (Peter Kootsookos)
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 08:34:58 CST
  7. References: <1993J an15.050239.3995@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>   
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  13. mpulver@research.canon.oz.au (Mark Pulver) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Austek Microsystem was not bought out by a US company. 
  16.  
  17. Perhaps not technically.
  18.  
  19. >Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd was the Australain design house.
  20. > :
  21. > [ description of carefully orchestrated buy-out and move-out deleted ]
  22. > :
  23. >The Australian company was forced to closed down, because the US office
  24. >called in intra-company debts.
  25.  
  26. Excuse me if I'm being thick, but I'm uncertain about the initial startup
  27. of Austek. 
  28.  
  29. I thought that Austek was started up in Australia, and that its sales 
  30. office (which obviously needed US support) was in the US.  If so, it seems
  31. (from your description of events) that the "sales office" eventually
  32. took over the running of things completely.
  33.  
  34. Ciao,
  35.  
  36. Peter K.
  37. pjk@mod.dsto.gov.au
  38.  
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