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INTERESTING NEW DEVELOPMENTS & TIDBITS
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AM-Report News Snippet
1) Commodore's new Amiga 600 comes equipped with a PCMCIA card
expansion slot.
2) Fujitsu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of PCMCIA
cards, just announced a price reduction in their PCMCIA cards —
making them the cheapest on the market.
3) Fujitsu doesn't sell to the general public — only through large
distributors and VAR's — one of their largest is Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC).
4) Commodore just signed an exclusive national distributor
agreement with Merisel. Experts predict this alone will net
Commodore over $20 million in revenue next year.
5) DEC just signed a national distributor agreement with Merisel.
6) Commodore has announced signing a reseller agreement with DEC.
7) DEC is the fastest growing PC vendor in the U.S. and has been
for the past two months. DEC has grown faster and more
consistantly over the last 6 months than any other vendor in
the industry. This from a survey of over 27,000 corporate
computer buyers conducted by an independent company.
8) DEC is big, very big, in networking and communications.
9) Commodore's SANA-II networking standard has reportedly been
(finally) finalized.
With the exceptions of #1 and #8 (and possibly #9), all this has
taken place within the last 30 days. Depending on the details of
the agreement with DEC (nothing has yet been released), Commodore
*looks* like they are making the moves necessary to start playing
ball with the big boys.
Make of what you will. [Looks like the WOC/A show in Pasadena will
be very interesting.l
Very interesting! We'll have to save this message and see what happens in
the next few months! 🙂
Steve
DEC just posted a fourth quarter loss of 1.85 billion. They've reduced
thier workforce by 23000 in the last 3 years, and expect to layoff 15000
more this year. Overall I'd say DEC picture isn't too bright.
Dean
DKB Software
Phooey! Remember last year? IBM posted almost a $2 billion loss and laid
off thousands…Apple posted a loss in the hundreds of millions and laid
off hundreds…so did most other big companies…Commodore was one of the
very few to post a profit last year. DEC is just doing now what IBM,
Apple, Wang and others did last year.
There was a $1.5 billion one-time restructuring charge in DEC's loss,
similar to what IBM and Apple had. (Heck, IBM is *still* offering "early
retirement" to darn near anyone who'll take it.)
DEC is the second largest computer manufacturer in the world (after IBM)
and the largest supplier of networked computer systems and networking
devices for computers.
They just changed upper management and are instituting a cost-cutting and
"down sizing" plan very similar to that of IBM and Apple.
DEC's financials are nothing to get worried over — it is an industry
phenomena not peculiar to DEC. What *would* be bad news is if they didn't
react to it…but, they did.
-Chas
Dean,
Thanks for the DEC update.
Dom Fontana