Amiga Update (1994-05-31)

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940531 European note {This line added when newsletter was archived.} 
Everyone, 

This note was picked up on Sunday night from Portal. It's from someone who  
claims to be close to C= Europe. Note that the "Monday" referred to in the 
note is yesterday. We monitored the AP wire and major on-line systems 
yesterday and no announcement was forthcoming, at least that we could find. 

 Brad 

29 may, 1994 
Hi all, 

There haven't been much news these last days and lots of rumours again. The 
status is still the same, Commodore and Samsung are now negociating  bits and 
pieces. Commodore employees are not allowed to reveal  the name  of Samsung in 
public yet. Internal news are tending towards  a finalization  in the near 
future (Commodore could be Samsung on Monday, actually, it's  quite imminent). 
Apparently, Commodore would like more money than Samsung  is willing to pay, 
that's why it takes so long. There's been a rumour  floating around on Usenet, 
saying that Samsung will get the Amiga line and  leave the CD 32 to Phillips. 
This is  not true. As told before, the main  point in the negociations between 
the two firms is that The ENTIRE Amiga  product line is to be maintained and 
in no way splitted around among several  companies or taken apart for some 
part of its technology.  No news wether or not the production has started 
again in the Philippines, there was also a  rumour about this but no one at 
Commodore Germany could confirm or deny this.  So it may be true... or not.  
Apparently, Commodore Germany is still  delivering to distributors in Germany 
and now also to France. There has  been a delivery of 70 A4000Ts in 
Braunschweig (subsidiary of Commodore  Germany) a few weeks ago and all of 
them are sold out by now. The assets  of Commodore France have been 
transferred to Braunschweig, where most of  the computing stuff was sold at an 
auction.   There are 3 or 4 other companies than Samsung on the line, which 
are  seriously interested in Commodore and the Amiga. Samsung is the only  
company Commodore is negociating with though, for now.   Commodore employees 
in Frankfurt were paid this month. 

Commodore Germany is running as usual. 

I know this is not extraordinary stuff, but there's no need at this point 
to make false scoops if there's nothing more to report. 

Stay tuned. 

      Gilles Bourdin Paris FAX(331)46266261 
            gbo@ramses.fdn.org 
  C'est apres la foire qu'on compte les bouses.