1: Commodore started by Jack Tramiel in the 1950's, engineered by Chuck Peddle in the 1970's/80's and run into the ground by Iriving Gould et al in 1994
2: Commodore sold to a bunch of dead companies in the 1990's
3: Commodore sold to YMV of the Netherlands in 2005 from an ailing Tulip Corp.
4: New Commodore raises a bunch of cash and happilly acquires a 4 or 5 small but interesting multimedia engineering / delivery companies
5: New Commodore in big trouble by 2007 and languishes with late to market products, recalled products, and products the never leave the lab
6: Everyone I know at Commodore (except the CEO Ben V, who is not returning my emails) quits over a 3 month period.
7: Jan 2009 new Commodore sells 51% of shares back to Tulip which had just renamed itself Nedfield along with the rights to buy the balance.
8: Jan 2009 Tulips press-release says they are going to try and sell the Commodore brand but will run the operation for a while
9: March 2009 new Commodore announces new Netbooks and updates their website in a meaning fullway for the first time in 2.5 years
10: Today, I see the Commodore Evolution brand for the first time, but can find no information on it. (see the bottom of any of their pages (Commodore Evolution © 2009. All rights reserved.)
Nefield has nothing new about Commodore on their site, new Commodore does not explain it, and their stock market provider (PinkSheets.com CDRL) shows nothing.
soooooo.... who is Commodore evolution? Did Tulip take the whole thing over or did they unload it to someone else?
see: http://www.commodoreworld.com/
Also note that Commodore Evolution has a new blog site with almost nothing on it and "comments are closed"... not a good re-start: http://www.commodore-evolution.com/blog/
The most interesting of the new C= products look suspiciously like the MSI Wind/ LG X110's:
although they do have other product... this still looks like a "me too" play, not an innovation:
