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From: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: compatible portable??
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Date: 24 Mar 90 14:07:05 GMT
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In article <1227@hedora.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>In <6722@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>>> Is Outbound Systems (Boulder, CO) the same company as Wallaby
>>> (Boulder?, CO)?
>>> Wallaby announced a similar system last fall.
>
>>Yes.
>
>	did they go Chapter 11 and start over?  (never a confidence
>	inspiring practice - says this industry watcher ....)

No, nothing like that at all.  Apparently another company had first use of the
name Wallaby so instead of going to court about it they changed their name.
They also felt "Outbound" better described their company and product than
"Wallaby".

I got this information from talking to someone at Outbound and from information
they sent me.

Bruce Burkhalter
Berkeley Systems, Inc.
bruce@cory.berkeley.edu