I've been keeping quiet on this subject thus far, mainly for two reasons

1) No one cares what I think.
2) I've got no brain.

Seriously though, I don't see why this takeover/investment/acquisition should be a bad combination.

Do people really distrust Hugo, Rob, Steve et. al. to make such a bad decision? Do we really think that they've not noticed the way things change when small companies are eaten by big companies?

[imaginary conversation]
US: Don't do it - big companies change small companies
Empeg: Oh, bugger, we'd not thought of that - let's not bother.
[/imaginary conversation]

I think that you can see where that's going .... (*grin*).

Personal service can't last forever. Without trying to be antagonistic, the cracks were starting to show in empeg's support (although not on this BBS particularly) - I really believe that this is simply due to the high number of issues:people ratio and a desire to innovate and design rather than to support and sell.

Don't get me wrong - this is NOT a bad thing - I know hundreds of fantastic people who are just the same - it's the old mathmatics principle:

'Working out HOW to solve the problem is interesting - actually solving it is simply number crunching'

Anyway, that's just my 2p on the subject, but I really just want to end on one point:

"Congratulations Empeg (Yes, All of you) - You deserve success!"

Cheers,

Paul.

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