At 12:43 PM 6/16/05 -0400, Eric Goldstein wrote: >Nikon is the next company we will be hearing bad news about... the are small, fairly monolithic, and need to restructure to remain relevant moving forward. Canon is eating their lunch in just about every niche in which they compete... > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Eric Nikon is owned by Mitsubishi, and only suffer when the mother company puts them on notice, as it did a decade back. I do not see this happening again anytime soon. I agree that Nikon has made some really stupid business decisions, but I do not see them disappearing: just as the Canon Camera folks are a 2% or so part of a much larger enterprise, Nikon is a minor player in a much larger field, and I suspect that Mitsubishi will continue to fund them as a prestige product for quite a while. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20 Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list