From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [05.12] Date: April 17, 1997 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 05, number 12 Contents: Re: INFO: bankrupt?? See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ, posted monthly http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/readfirst-faq.html, for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. Sci.virtual-worlds WWW page is at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/ This Digest is archived at the sci.virtual-worlds archive site, URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/Digests/ Toni Emerson Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot ---------------------------------START OF DIGEST------------------------------ Message-ID: <334FF959.128@sojourn.com> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:06:33 -0400 From: John Goggan Reply-To: jgoggan@sojourn.com Subject: Re: INFO: bankrupt?? References: <5imk93$n6s@nntp1.u.washington.edu> > From: boomt@aol.com (BOOM T) > > is Forte bankrupt? Can you provide a little more information as yo why you believe this might be the case? I haven't heard anything lately, but that doesn't always mean anything. As far as I could tell, when I was speaking with their marketing guy (granted, might not mean much :) just a couple weeks ago, everything seemed fine for soon-to-be-released products. So, I will give a call and see if this rumor is true, but if you could provide more information, it would be appreciated. Now, might you be confusing Forte with Virtual i-O? Now, THEY are going through some things at this time. They filed Chapter 11 a few weeks ago. I tried calling every number that I had for the place and no one was answering any phones -- except for a lone developer at the Developer Relations number! He confirmed for me that they had filed Chapter 11, but, according to him, they had just had a change of command and were starting the recovery process already. He assured me, of course, that things were all going fine and that they also had new product in development for probably release 4Q97. However, Ingram Micro is the nations largest wholesale distributor and I will note that the April pricing update NO LONGER CONTAINS Virtual i-O products! Granted, this could just be an oversight due to the Chapter 11, but I thought it was interesting enough to mention. Hope that helps the rumor mill a bit. Again, as far as I've heard Forte is still going fine (heck, with VictorMaxx long out of the way and now possibly Virtual i-O having problems, that should leave Forte sitting pretty if they can just rid out the low-cost-dumping-of-possibly discontinued product that usually occurs during Chapter 11 things... :) - John Goggan ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************