[kwlug disc.] linux on zune

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 6:28 pm, Unsolicited at gto.net wrote:
> Was Atria sold so much as just spun off?

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=618309&searchText=false&showText=all

That suggests it was sold to Birch Hill Equity Partners.  The exact details of 
the sale were kept under wraps, so nobody outside of the room really knows.

> Seems to me Atria was going great guns for business and seemed to be doing
> well, growth / providing wise. Going into the Waterloo corridor seemed to
> me to be the beginning of a general (wireless?) attack on residential
> service.

Could be, but as I'd mentioned before... the pricing structure makes it 
unusable as a "light, away from home" access network, as you'd just as well 
be paying the same monthly cost as your residential service.

Oh well; I guess it's open APs for me...

-A.