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From: jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: More Commodore rumors
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.040433.9884@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 9 Mar 91 04:04:33 GMT
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From article <1991Mar8.232628.19106@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, by es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita):
> In article <1991Mar8.204143.4124@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
>>
>>Also mentioned were that cutbacks in 
>>personel at Commodore U.S. dovetail with rumors of several months ago
>>that CBM U.S. operations would be cut to the bone or even shut down if
>>U.S. sales don't improve soon.


In the Feb. 25 issue of EE Times is a half-page add from CBM looking for
Unix Software Engineers (yes plural), a Senior Font Programmer, and
Hardware Engineers.  Doesn't say how many of each, just says several and
gives uunet contact addresses for each of the categories.  Gives standard
qualification stuff and a little about what the positions are for.


> 
> Why would Sony want to buy Commodore? They want to get into the
> computer business? They sell video equipment! The two companies
> complement each other well enough without becoming one.

Actually, Sony does want to get into the computer business (can you say
Unix) in a big way.  The have been trying to get customers to buy their
News workstation (680xx, Unix, X) for at least 4 years now.  Kinda hard
to look the other way in an electronics market that has been growing by
leaps and bounds for the last decade.

john gay.