This text file is a posting downloaded from the Internet by a member of my user group in Southern Maryland, who is employed as a contractor for the U.S. Navy and has Internet access through their computer. The information is of great interest to us AMIGOIDS, and sounds very promising if true! -MJones88 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: **** READ !!! CBM IS NOT DEAD **** Message-ID: <1EBAD8EA@ramses.fdn.org> Date: 02 May 94 17:11:01 +0200 Distribution: world Organization: RAMSES BBS (France:1-6003-7015/7713/7716) K-GateSoftware: DDDGate 1.39 Lines: 80 Hello "Neil J. Mcrae", In a message of 30 Apr 94, you wrote to All: NJM> Organization: Domino NJM>CBM International is gone, which means that everything that they NJM>control CBM UK, Germany, Canada, Outer Mongolia will be sold off. From: Gilles Bourdin Date: Monday, May 2nd 1994, 16H3O CET. Source : Commodore Germany Commodore is NOT DEAD and neither is the Amiga. Call it a miracle, or whatever you like, but it's TRUE> Look, I just called Commodore Germany and was told that the european operations were not affected by the American liquidation. "Things are just fine over here in Frankfurt, thank you". I called four differrent people to make sure that the information is accurate (yes, I speak german). I know some of these people personally, I worked at Commodore Germany a few years ago, and am concerned in spreading reliable information from reliable sources, so please, do not flame this information as rumours, it is REAL. Commodore currently only gives information by phone, until everything is cleared up. Commodore US HAD to be liquidated because they found an investor who is willing to inject enough cash to startup Commodore business again. They won't tell at this time who actually bought them up, this will be done later in an official press announcement. It is also not sure what sort of agreement was reached between them, if it's a joint venture, a participation in Commodores capital or a complete takeover. What I can tell you, is that the buyer is a big asian investor who has enough financial power to restart Commodore and who is willing to keep the Amiga product line alive. The american structure WILL be maintained, all development comes from there. The recent layoffs are the results of the liquidation. There are good chances that many of these employees will be hired back when the storm is over. No clear statement, though. Production is still halted and restarting it is not a problem at all. The names "Commodore" and "Amiga", as well as the product will be maintained and supported in the future. There will be *no layoffs* at Commodore Germany. Alwin Stumpf (CEO of C= Germany) was in England on Saturday at a general meeting where these issues were discussed. I phoned with him last week (can't be reached today, unfortunately, you will understand why, actually it was a real pain to get through the busy phone lines today) and he mainly gave me information about what was going to happen with Commodore in France. The main point in the negociations in GB were that the name Commodore and the product Amiga had to be maintained. They succeeded in avoiding an "Amiga slaughtering takover". They found a way to accomplish this needed liquidation of C= US and all non-rentable subsidiaries (C= France, C= Spain, C= Belgium) without suspending the operations of C= Germany, C= Italy, C= GB and C= Scandinavia. Commodore France will be replaced by a new company called "Amiga Computer- export SARL", which will have an office in Paris. Developer and dealer support as well as marketing and distribution will be their main activity. This subsidiary of Commodore Germany will have a lighter structure than former Commodore France and will be 100% Amiga oriented, unlike C= France who was too much PC oriented and who didn't survive the loss of the clone market. NJM> Yes this is the end. No, it's a new beginning. NJM> For the first time CBM made a headline on Compuserve! There will be more opportunities for them to make headlines soon, believe me. Feel free phone or mail me for further information, the lines are buzzing and I'll be back with more info as soon as available. Gilles Bourdin, Paris. Tel (331)45341957 FAX(331)46266261 gbo@ramses.fdn.org ----------------------------------- snap ---------------------- That was it again. I have no idea about the chances that this is true, though I would love to believe it is. Let's all hope the Amiga makes it possible again. vy 73 de DG6YHI Bernd ----- End of message 17057 from DG6YHI @ SK2AT.AC.SWE.EU -----