luscher@nicmad.UUCP (05/21/85)
> > > anyone hear about Computer Consoles, Inc. being bought out by > > > Phillips Corp. (no, not the Milk of Magnesia people, the > > > stereo people).???? > > > > > Hmm, I thought NBI got them. > > Nope, the NBI deal got nixed (corporate style problems, from what > the local Rochester papers said). > In the WSJ of last Friday there was an article stating that CCI is entering the word-processing business (NBI's turf). Revenge? -- Jim Luscher / Nicolet Instruments / Oscilloscope Div. 5225 Verona Rd Bldg-2 / Madison Wi 53711 USA / 608/271-3333x2274
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (05/27/85)
> In the WSJ of last Friday there was an article stating that > CCI is entering the word-processing business (NBI's turf). Revenge? The article was posted May 20th; I checked the May 17 Wall Street Journal and the only mention of CCI was in "Business Briefs", discussing the annual shareholder's meeting. It said they sold a Power 6/32 to Lucasfilm for "special motion picture effects". Nothing about "entering the word-processing business". At this point, entering the word-processing business (as opposed to the office automation business, which CCI has been in for the past couple of years) is sort of like entering the plug-compatible business for large IBM machines without 31-bit addressing; there may be some market but it's not really growing. Dedicated word processors are still being sold, but since a dedicated word processor is just a microcomputer system which only has text-editing (and maybe some simple database and report-writing) software, most word processing systems are just word processing programs on general-purpose computers. You get something that's just as good as the dedicated word processors *and* it can run 1-2-3, or Multiplan, or Unify, or.... CCI has had a full-blown WYSIWYG word processor in their OA offering for the past couple of years (either that or I spent the last two years at CCI writing and extending something that doesn't exist). NBI is also trying to expand into the general OA market; the merger with CCI may have been intended to strengthen both companies' position in that market. If CCI cares about the pure typing-pool or one-or-two-machine secretarial WP market, they're crazy; most of the big OA names are selling large office computer systems and/or PCs (IBM, DEC, Data General, Wang, ...) and that's what CCI's systems (both hardware and software) are like. Guy Harris
rick@ccicpg.UUCP ( Rick Paul) (05/29/85)
> In the WSJ of last Friday there was an article stating that > CCI is entering the word-processing business (NBI's turf). Revenge? A part of CCI has been in the "word-processing" (actually integrated office automation) business for some time now.