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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Northgate's Troubles
Message-ID: <534@newave.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 90 08:34:42 GMT
References: <11951@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <11951@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes:
> As an happy owner of some Northgate stuff I'm sorry to see them
> in dire straights. Maybe this is partially caused by all the money
> they wasted on excessive advertising.

Somebody must of forgot to tell Northgate that they were in trouble.
True, they did layoff a few people the other day, they are experiencing
extremely rapid growth, they just opened up more retail outlets in the
twin cities, they just moved into a new corporate headquarters in Eden
Prairie, MN (the old Lee Data building), they just bought out two rivals,
new marketing agreements, announced Sparc machines, had another record
quarter, hired new supposedly brilliant CEO, etc.  I wish I was in that
bad of shape.

As far as excessive advertising, someone has to pay for all of those
free magazines that I receive 8-).

-john-

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