Remember the plan to continue to make cameras was assumed by Pentax. Hoya's plans were unknown but hinted at by their CFO, which seems to have precipitated the unpleasantness. By the way if Hoya is so strong and Pentax's prospects are so bleek, why didn't Hoya just say, then have it your way, and walk away?
John Forbes wrote: > That was back in the days when the deal was announced as a merger, and the > stated plan was to continue to make cameras. > > John > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:09:15 +0100, Digital Image Studio > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 22/05/07, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> My guess is that it has already sold the imaging division to Samsung >>> (subject to the deal going through, of course), but that's just a guess, >>> like everything else that has been said on this subject. >>> >> It's peculiar then that they registered the domain Hoya-Pentax.com >> >> Domain Name.......... hoya-pentax.com >> Creation Date........ 2006-12-21 >> Registration Date.... 2006-12-21 >> Expiry Date.......... 2007-12-21 >> Organisation Name.... HOYA CORPORATION >> Organisation Address. 2-7-5 Naka-Ochiai >> Organisation Address. >> Organisation Address. Shinjuku-ku >> Organisation Address. 161-8525 >> Organisation Address. Tokyo >> Organisation Address. JAPAN >> >> > > > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
