Talk:Osborne effect/Archives/2012

clarification of what killed osborne

IF you read the register article, what happened was a VP found a large stock of perfectly functional but slightly obsolete Osborne 1 motherboards. A model Osborne was transitioning out of and putting all it's focus on the OSborne Executive and Vixen. Apparently the Exec not realizing the cost of restarting Production for the Osborne 1, committed over 2 million dollars to get these MBs turned into functional product, and, slammed the company with 2 million dollars of accounts payable when cash flow was already staggering.

this is a classic case of throwing good money after bad.

i would suggest rewriting the last sentence to say "In a case of throwing good money after bad, a VP initiated a prjoect to restart Osborne 1 production based upon a large cache of Functional motherboards that turned up in inventory. This decision cost over 2 million dollars, far more then the economic value of the declining Osborne 1 sales would ever produce and slammed the company with debts when cash flow was already struggling".--Patbahn (talk) 17:19, 1 May 2012 (UTC)