CompuServe Messages

Yah, definitely, alliances and mergers are going to be a "90's thing" <grin> Tandy got GRiD for laptops and the government market, Compaq got together with Silicon Graphics recently, Apple and IBM actually talked, etc. It's natural, because they're now realizing that no single company can handle everything that'll be needed in future business machine environments. However, I think that Commodore is partially exempt from this need, as their main income is no doubt from the inexpensive home computers (A500 and C64s). I'm not sure that breaking bigtime into the Apple/IBM market is possible… certainly no one has managed it so far, and it's been many years. The only thing I'm really worried about, is that these new cooperatives _will_ come up with something very cool (and affordable). Then it might take a hard effort to not join in… and woe is me, it's hard to teach us old dogs new tricks <wide grin>. cheers – kev