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From: plouff@nac.dec.com (Wes Plouff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Good News about CBM's Business
Message-ID: <8810192026.AA04160@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 23:00:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Last night at the Boston Computer Society, Wes Young, a stockbroker who 
follows Commodore, reported the following news.  He talked to Irving
Gould and other top Commodore officials during the last couple of weeks. 
Commodore claims:

	o  1100 Amiga dealers

	o  1600 Amiga software titles

	o  about 3/4ths of worldwide sales revenue is from Europe

	o  worldwide Amiga sales 50K units/month, same as Macintosh

	o  total installed base 1 million units by end of 1988

	o  Amiga has 20+% of TV weather graphics market

	o  U.S. advertising focused on graphics and desktop video 
	   markets

	o  general advertising will be limited until a "large enough 
	   dealer network is in place"

	o  financial situation continues to improve

Overall, this is good news.  Now, a little arithmetic says that to reach 
a million units from a base of 600,000 in summer (June?), Commodore has 
to have good Christmas sales.  But since Max Toy's background is in 
sales and marketing, they just might do it.

-- 
Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Littleton, Mass.
plouff%nac.dec@decwrl.dec.com

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