Buyout Watch
Not necessarily in any order...
- Novell bought WordPerfect
- ESCOM bought Commodore.
- Adobe bought Aldus.
- IBM bought Lotus.
- Corel bought WordPerfect back from Novell
- Microsoft bought Blue Ribbon Soundworks (and promptly suspended all Amiga development).
- JTS Corporation bought Atari.
- Hewlett-Packard bought Convex.
- Microsoft bought Intuit.
- StarNine bought the company that made MacHTTP
- Quarterdeck bought StarNine
- Seagate bought Connor.
- Silicon Graphics bought Cray Research.
- Packard Bell bought Zenith, which means crappy computers with good monitors.
- Spindler resigns from Apple, replaced by Gil Amelio - National Semiconductor's "Captain
Comeback."
- SuperMac and Radius merge
- Schmitt resigns from Escom, replaced by Helmut Jost.
- Viscorp buys the Amiga division from Escom.
- Micropolis changed its name to StreamLogic.
- NEC and Packard Bell merge
And the rumors:
- Microsoft might buy Netscape.
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