cb538@city.ac.uk (cb538) (11/24/88)
> I hear rumours that Niche Technology has gont into receivership! > Can anyone confirm that? Yes, it's true... We had been trying to ring Niche for several days and finally contacted the soliciter who has been put in charge. Bad news ... he said "You have no chance of getting any money". Good news ... "A rescue plan is being worked on". All creditors will be contacted by post within the next few days seemingly...so don't get hassled, as things seem to be moving. It is unclear as to if this is affecting the UK operation, or if the US side has also gone bang. > Does anyone know how it happened ? Nope, no idea here. We were supposed to be taking on a beta test for the new sun 4 based system (uses the same VME type board, but differant software) and that all seemed ok until just recently, except I know that Niche have been experiancing difficulty producing the aforementioned sun4 tds due to bugs in the new sunos for sun4's ( which make writting device drivers difficult, not to say impossible). Cashflow seems likely.... "Not an complete answer - but possibly some help" -Mike
kropf@iam.unibe.ch (Peter Kropf) (11/28/88)
Several people have confirm that Niche (UK) has gone into receivership. Does anybody know whether this affects the US side, too, and whether the Niche Sun boards are just disappearing from the market. Is any other company maybe taking over theese boards and producing and selling them in future? Does anybody out there has a complete overview of SUN based Transputer boards (along with up to date software)? Many thanks for hints, Peter Peter Kropf University of Bern Switzerland kropf@iam.unibe.ch or U06K@CBEBDA3T.BITNET