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Maybe some news from Europe : – C= Belgium went bankrupt on April 19th, a few days after C= France had undergone the same … – a few days later C= France re-appeared as a new company, namely : Amiga France – C= Belgium did not re-appear. C= Belgium was responsible for operations in Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg, all small Amiga countries (Belgium approx 10.000 Amiga's/year, Holland 20.000 Amiga's). – Now strange thing : atleast 1 employee (former sales manager ) of C= Belgium was transferred one day before the bankruptcy to C= Holland. Why ? – I spoke to him earlier this day and surprisingly, he was very confident about the future of the Amiga ??? He told me : C=Holland is NOT closed, and was saved from the bankruptcy through some tricks (the structure of C= is very complicated, and infact made for this kind of tricks), even more : C= Holland is the holding company of C=Germany and C=Uk, 2 countries were the Amiga is very popular. Last week some people of C= talked to Philips to get monitors. Very strange things for a company that is bankrupt … – General feelings here are that Irv is playing some tricks, and that the Amiga will survive. Note : there are very strong rumours about a Japanese company willing to buy C= after the bankruptcy proceedings. Now, if Irv could save the Amiga from the bankruptcy of C=, and he sells the Amiga to that nameless company … – lots of IFF's, but a small chance of something good coming out of this … (although I'm not looking forward to another few years with Irv Gould …) Herman