[clug] MORE - webone sells out to iinet

[Aaron Smith]

Rob,

Please do not use TPG. I am about to start using TPG and would rather 
they were not acquired by another company for a while. You seem to be 
the  touch-of-death for ISP's.

Aaron.

Bolin, Robert wrote:
> Why are there chills running down my spine about this? Maybe because I heard
> the same words when Interact was bought out by Asia Online (It's funny that
> in both cases, the larger company says "we bought" and the smaller says "we
> merged to leverage better results for the customer...")
> 
> Rob
> (Iacom customer -> Interact customer -> Asia Online customer -> out in the
> cold -> Webone customer -> iinet customer -> ?)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Griffiths [mailto:johnboy at the-riotact.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2003 5:54 PM
> To: johnboy at the-riotact.com
> Cc: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [clug] MORE - webone sells out to iinet
> 
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> a scan of the webone release is here:
> 
> http://the-riotact.com/~johnboy/p0611026.pdf
> 
> John Griffiths wrote:
> 
>>Just a heads up that iinet have bouhgt out webone.
>>
>>iinet have a media release here:
>>
>>http://www.iinet.net.au/news/acquistionscontd.html
>>
>>which is not specific but i've got a dead tree of the the webone media
>>release.
>>
>>lets hope they don't go dropping the ball or going belly up as expanding
>>ISP's are prone to do.
> 
> 
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Aaron Smith
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Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems