Jay Miner's Statement
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Jay Miner, general manager of Commodore-Amiga, responded late yesterday to
concern over reported layoffs within Commodore with the following official
statement:
"Commodore International has had heavy layoffs. These layoffs have been
uniformly distributed over all positions and have been necessary for an overall
reduction in staff.
"The Amiga division's losses have come almost completely from management
and engineering support services. Commodore and Amiga are continuing to support
the Amiga computer, and development of new products is continuing at Amiga.
"Except for a few people who quit a few months ago, we've lost almost no
people in either the software or hardware engineering divisions. Those that we
have lost have been basically quality assurance, management, and documentation.
"The layoffs were necessitated by a need to meet certain budget figures."