Anthony wrote: > I personally think they were set back years by the abortive alliance with > Hewlett-Packard. Just think about all the development time they spent > getting the EI cameras into the shops to have them be such a letdown. So > they found themselves well into the digital era with no joint-venture > partner to provide the IT side of a digicam development, and had to restart > from scratch. It's a miracle that the Optio cameras got to market so soon > after the demise of the EI cameras. And the need to staff an IT R&D > division could explain a little of the increase of employee numbers.
I believe the are in-cahoots with Epson. All kinds of disclaimers apply as I can't remember where I got that from :-) Pål