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Subject: Re: Our old friend get real money ...

Author: Robert Pawlak

Date: 16:32:23 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 11:25:45, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi:
>I do not know how this will be taken here and what it means for the future of
>CSTAL or as portent of this tiny industry as an all, but anyway I found the
>following piece of information in one of my voyages trought Internet in one of
>those sleepy afternoons. In fact it is  not a "new" properly speaking; almost is
>a piece of old history, but there is some indecence into it that I think you
>should know:
>
>
>  "...In order to finance the acquisition -of Oxford Software- and to support
>the continued development of the group, Purple raised from Quester, New Media
>Spark and Emerging Technologies £5.4 million of new private equity..."
>
>
>Not bad money, IMHO. Not bad for just a piece of chess junk and some bridge and
>poker games with the old face of a egiptian actor and gambler. So this guy Chris
>not only indulges himself appearing here behind different names just to bother
>us, but at the same time he becomes rich. I protest.
>
>fernando

I wonder if oxford software=oxford softworks. If so, I think there will be many
early retirements :-).

It looks like oxford software develops recruiting software of some kind...

Bob P.




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