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From: BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commodore Top Management
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Date: 11 Apr 90 06:07:52 GMT
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  The Commodore upper management people do seem to finally have their
acts together.  Commodore now has an absolutely top-notch crack R&D
team, especially in software development.  Hardware development could
be better, though, but is suffering from the two years whem under
Max Toy, R&D funds for Amiga projects were cut back somewhat in favor
of R&D on PC clone hardware.

   However, no matter how good the upper management people are, they
can't do much unless the top management people permit it.  I am
speaking of Mr. Guould and Mr. Ali.  In the past, Mr. Guould has
often gotten in the way of technological innovations (being in his
eighties, he can't have the young, innovative spirit that young
people have), but he doesn't seem to be getting in the way directly
now.  However, Mr. Guould and Mr. Ali still aren't doing much good
by sucking away millions of dollars for their own personal uses.
This is corruption in action, and it must stop.

   Commodore has recently laid off a number of technical support
people in Canada.  For the $2 Million that Mr. Ali grabbed for
himself, those TEN people who were laid off could be kept on for
another year.  Cutting back on tech support will only turn sales
into a downward spiral -- Ask Atari about that!

   I don't know how many people will receive this, as a lot of
people have called my postings "crap" and have put me on thir
(oops) their kill files.  Fine, I don't really care if they
receive my messages on not.  It is entirely up to them whether
they want to read what I have to say, and if they don't read
it then the world will not come to and end.


                                    -MB-