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From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg)
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
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References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 22:16:48 GMT

In article <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Mister Clueless) writes:
>In article <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Mister Clueless) writes:
>>>
>>	What they've been in a hurry to do neither of us know,
>>and I do agree that they aren't spending as much as they should
>>on R&D, but where the hell do you get the info that Commodore has
>>SLASHED R&D? It has not decreased since I've been following the
>>stock. It has increased all throughout. Admittedly it is low but
>>NOTHING has been slashed.
>
>   It has been slashed as a percentage of total sales.  For the fiscal
>year 1990, Commodore invested 3.5% of their total sales in research and
>development.  According to Commodore's Third Quarter Report, for the
>first three quarters of fiscal year 1991, Commodore invested 2.2%
>(approximately) of their total sales in research and devlopment.  If
>this is not a slash, I don't know what is.
>
>                                   -MB-

Marc, did it EVER OCCUR to you that Amiga sales have INCREASED?! The R&D might
have stayed around the same level, or possibly increased, but remember, Amiga
sales have more than DOUBLED over the past year. That would certainly explain
the lower numbers.

>



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