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From: fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick Pasotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: New Commodore President
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 21:21:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 21:21:47 1987
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Excerpted without permission from "Computer Reseller News", Oct 12, 1987

		COMMODORE ENLISTS TOY AS PRESIDENT

	Industry veteran Max Toy, generally credited with engineering the
expansion of ITT Corp.'s Xtra Business Systems division's PC product line
and strengthening its distribution channels, last week was named president
and chief operating officer of Commodore Business Machines Inc.

	Toy, who held the post of vice president of sales and government
products for Xtra Business Systems and had been with the company for two
years, said he resigned his post "for a greater opportunity."

	[ . . . ]

	"It [Commodore] is a significant company that has solid foundation
stones to build from," he said, indicating that he intends to "solidify
Commodore's relationships not just with distribution channels but also
in establishing strategic alliances."

	In his new post, Toy will report directly to Commodore International
Ltd. chairman and chief executive Irving Gould.

	"Commodore has acteas an independent company with good software
relationships," Toy said.  "Its strengths right now include integrated
manufacturing and design capabilities and a large, loyal installed base,"
he said.

	According to Toy, Commodore maintains an installed base of about
12 million systems throughout the world, 10 million of which are in the
United States.

	Toy said he was undaunted by Commodore's previous flagging
fortunes in challenging Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh systems with its
Amiga computers.

	In fact, Toy said he plans to use the Amiga line to land VAR
agreements for Commodore, based on that computers strengths in desktop
presentation and its audio/video capabilities.

	Those plans were supported by Gould, who said in a prepared
statement that Commodore sought Toy because "Max has over 12 years of
personal-computer-industry experience and has established solid 
distribution networks and VAR programs."

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Sounds promissing to me.  Maybe our beloved Amiga WILL make it as a
business machine.

Rick Pasotto