hummel@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (05/02/88)
Written 12:42 am Apr 29, 1988 by SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET in comp.sys.misc: > An All-in-One Clone? > Although Commodore's Amiga has been popular with hobbyists > and individuals, the company is struggling financially. > Rumor has it that Commodore will try to restore > profitability with a new line of powerful business computers > featuring both Intel 80386 and Motorola 68020 (maybe even > 68030) coprocessors. - PC Week 5 April Maybe you (PC Week?) would like to think so, but Commodore has been on the up and up for quite a while now. Included below is a clip regarding their 4Q87 earnings. As for 1Q88, I haven't read anything on it, though the price of Commodore stock continues to do quite well. Commodore DOES have a lot of work ahead of it in the marketing area (I personally don't think the Amiga is doing as well as it DESERVES, considering its price/performance and the high quality software now shipping for it.) Still, demand for Amigas is still quite high and the Amiga DID restore Commodore to profitability during a period when it wasn't even being advertised! They also need to watch their tails; the Mac II (gezundheit) will soon have graphics as fast as the Amiga, a real OS, and such. In their favor, though, Commodore did bring back a lot of the original Amiga geniuses who were laid off in the slack times. Lionel Hummel hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu Dept. of Computer Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign /* Written 9:42 pm Feb 8, 1988 by papa@pollux.usc.edu in comp.sys.amiga */ These are at least a week old, but I am posting them since nobody has done so. CBM announced the quarterly results for the quarter ending December 31, 1987. CBM posted a $27.7 million income on a $281.7 million revenue, a 27% increase over the same period one year earlier. Increased revenues were due to increasing Amiga sales, now accounting for 40% of the revenue. Demand for Amiga computers outstripped supply. The sales projections of last July were confirmed. This means that there are now over half a million Amigas out there. /* End of text from uiucdcsm:comp.sys.amiga */