#Aussie Rumors
Okays here's the news on whats going on down here in AUS. This information
is provided not as gospel but as info only.
Alan
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IT'S HAPPENED!!!!! Amiga buy-out semi-official!
From the most reliable sources, who don't want to be quoted directly,
simply because the final announcement has not been made and will be
made next week:
CBM-UK, Premier Homeline and the ex-CEO of Commmodore Germany (which has
been liquidated a couple of weeks ago) have agreed to work together to
make it happen! It's still hard to know where the power lies in this joint
venture, and what the exact policy is going to be, but you'll get a good
idea if you check out the interview with Donald Pleasance quoted in
MegaBites this issue. His intentions are definitely good.
The heads of these three companies will be appearing at a show in Taiwan
next week and have invited all the possible distributors to turn up for a
kind of distribution of distribution rights round the world.
CBM-UK will probably do the manufacturing in Scotland and supply machines
to both the new German company which will set up instead of the old German
Commodore company, and to Premier HomeLine (a company which also does
phones, faxes and satellite receivers in Europe) who will distribute to
the rest of the world, including Australia.
RMF will do the dealer sales and marketing, and Megatron (who've done a
big Amiga deal with the TAB in the past and who will do the warranty and
technical side) will partner RMF as distributors here in Australia. This
is definite, apparently – they have signed the contract and it is being
executed. This means old Commmodore hands are definitely out of the
running – there were rumours of a couple of thme trying to get the
distributorship, and immediately a bunch of disaffected dealers shot faxes
off to CBM-UK to let them know what they thought about that…
So expect to see a few TV ads and a newspaper/magazine campaign under way
pretty soon, e the Amiga, but there is also still a lot of good will out
there for the machine, and if it can be demonstrated that there is serious
money, management and intention behind the buy-out, we could see the
return of the Amiga. Let's hope