Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!b-tech!ais.org!jph From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: Sender: jph@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 22:16:48 GMT In article <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Mister Clueless) writes: >In article <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >>In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Mister Clueless) writes: >>> >> What they've been in a hurry to do neither of us know, >>and I do agree that they aren't spending as much as they should >>on R&D, but where the hell do you get the info that Commodore has >>SLASHED R&D? It has not decreased since I've been following the >>stock. It has increased all throughout. Admittedly it is low but >>NOTHING has been slashed. > > It has been slashed as a percentage of total sales. For the fiscal >year 1990, Commodore invested 3.5% of their total sales in research and >development. According to Commodore's Third Quarter Report, for the >first three quarters of fiscal year 1991, Commodore invested 2.2% >(approximately) of their total sales in research and devlopment. If >this is not a slash, I don't know what is. > > -MB- Marc, did it EVER OCCUR to you that Amiga sales have INCREASED?! The R&D might have stayed around the same level, or possibly increased, but remember, Amiga sales have more than DOUBLED over the past year. That would certainly explain the lower numbers. > -- // Joseph Hillenburg/Blackwinter, Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group \X/ jph@valnet.UUCP jph@irie.ais.org jph@gnu.ai.mit.edu "Project: Desert Storm is also known as ``The Mother of All Ass-Kickings.''"