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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Earlie who wrote (13491)	1/25/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Earlie; They are getting shelf space, it's assembeled in Ca or most of it is, but I don't think it's publicly traded. It might be funded by the Koreas, and acting like a parts outlet for their boards and stuff. When I first built boxes I was taught by Taiwanese..they had small back door shops all over SW Houston, they built clones, most funding and parts came from Taiwan it was their way of getting market. Had it not been for them early on prices would still be out of sight. I mention CTX as this looks like a major play by the Koreans but I have no real inside info. just adding 2+2 via my old box building experance. I could not really compeat with them, as they had cheap labor too..but I was 50 south of their shops and they had no problem with teaching me how and selling me the parts, in one way it would have been cheaper to "job" the assembly work out to them, but being I had to service the stuff I had to get into it to know how. Were as if I jobed it out I would not have got what it took to service them. They are down in my area now with a nice shop, no way I want to compeat. I do a little end user support work from time to time, but stocking parts that drop in price before you can wipe your butt is not for me, I got burned doing that towards the end and do not hesitate to "job" out any order I get nowdays just to avoid having inventory..it's easy to lose a bundle of money just stocking memory..they have price guarantees from their suppliers that do not extend to me. Jim