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- Chicago, IL
- July 24, 1996
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- An Open Message to the Amiga Community
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- from Bill Buck, CEO, VIScorp:
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- 1. Escom AG and Amiga Technologies GmbH are in bankruptcy and will
- cease to exist as corporate entities. VIScorp has reached an
- agreement with the Trustee for the liquidation of these companies
- and with the creditors of these companies for the purchase of
- "Amiga." There were at least eleven different banks or companies
- that had claims to be "owners" of the technology and/or the
- inventory. Escom had liabilities of over $250 million. Imagine the
- confusion...
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- 2. The steps that we had to follow through the last three months
- were painstaking. As the situation at Escom deteriorated, we had to
- continually re-negotiate our purchase contract. We could not
- speed-up the process. Many things we wanted to begin immediately we
- have had to delay. The situation at Amiga and Escom were extremely
- troubled. This was in part because of the difficult financial and
- management situations at Amiga and Escom, but also because of how
- poorly organized the intellectual property had been under
- Commodore. In the course of the Commodore bankruptcy many problems
- developed that were never repaired.
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- 3. The final (and last of three) purchase contract was signed on
- Friday, 19 July. It cannot be changed; it has been executed. The
- intellectual property of the former Commodore and the inventory of
- the former Amiga Technologies will be owned finally by VIScorp. The
- final paperwork will be completed in the next 30 days. During this
- month, VIScorp GmbH will be registered and Amiga Technologies will
- continue to operate temporarily in bankruptcy for VIScorp.
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- 4. Petro Tyschtschenko and his staff will continue to operate from
- Germany. Raquel Velasco and Petro Tyschtschenko will be the new
- General Managers of Amiga, to be known as VIScorp GmbH. Al Duncan,
- a former General Manager of Commodore will join VIScorp to manage
- the sales and distribution of VIScorp and Amiga products in North
- America. Petro will continue to operate from Germany and manage the
- existing business. Raquel is looking for someone from the community
- to manage the re-organization of the sales and distribution in
- Europe. Please contact Raquel if you are the right person for this
- job.
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- 5. The engineering efforts of the former Amiga Technologies and the
- on-going engineering of VIScorp will be combined and professionally
- managed. We intend to begin to implement the plans we outlined in
- Toulouse very shortly.
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- 6. Please excuse our lack of communication with the community over
- the last months. We were severely restricted from communicating our
- activities. Please resend your emails to any of the VIScorp staff
- if they have not been answered by this letter. We simply could not
- answer all the emails.
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- 7. Do not expect miracles from VIScorp, expect slow, but steady
- progress.
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- Thank you for your continued support.
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- Best Regards,
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- Bill Buck
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