From: jbitt@primenetx.com (John Bittner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Yet another friend of mine has left the Amiga scene !
Date: 28 Jul 1997 07:14:00 -0700
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In article <1387.7146T1068T147@airtime.co.uk>, hoggett@airtime.co.uk (Bill Hoggett) wrote:

>Just one thing though: If Gateway were that greedy for the money, why
>didn't they just cash in on the merger with Compaq instead of worrying
>about the company's status ?
>
John Dvorak puts forth a theory in his latest column in PC magazine.
According to Dvorak, Gateway was offered $7 billion by Compaq.  Dvorak
thinks Gateway turned it down because of Intel.  You see, Intel is not 
comfortable with Compaq's size, and Compaq has refused to use Intel
MB's and chip sets in the manufacture of their machines.  Then there's
the matter of Compaq funding NexGen to develop what is now AMD's K6,
a Pentium challenger.

The theory continues that Intel offered Gateway price incentatives to keep
Compaq out or that Intel itself may be in purchase negotiations with Gateway,
Intel is known to be considering coming out with Intel branded PC's.

If any of this is true, it certainly raises new possibilities about Gateway's 
reasons for purchasing Amiga.

John Bittner
http://www.zumagroup.com